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The Portland daily press., 1882-04-03
The Declineof Our Shipping.
The Causes Thereof and the Remedies
Indicated.
To the Editor of the Press:

To the Editor Of the Press:
Suppose we first consider how our CONNER
cial marine attained to its position Of second
among the nations in magnitude in 1860
Up to about 1S45 we built vessels to carry our
cotton, tobacco, lumber, &C., to market, re-
turning with such foreign products as we could
get on freight, or buy to make profit on, and
the supply of vessels about equalled the de-
mand. About this time, 1916, the guano trade
began to open up-the famine in Ireland
caused great demand for our breadstuffs and
vessels to carry-vessels too that were more
strongly built than the Cotton ships-then
came the Mexican war and demand for gov
ernment transports, followed by the discovery
of gold in California, the emigration thither,
and the demand for the clipper ships adapted
to the trade. Just previous to this time, say
1916 or 6, the British navigation laws were re
pealed which opened up to us participation
in the carrying trade between Great Britain
and all her colonies and dependencies These
causes combined to create very great demand
for vessels, so that our sea coast from New Jer-
sey to. Maine was one vast shipyard up to the
breaking out of the war, or to the revulsion OF
1857, and by that time the supply of vessels
was fully equal to if not greater than the de-
mand and ship-building was checked. l
think it would have gradually declined, or our
tonnaSe would have declined from 1861, nad
there been no war.
Now let us go back to the decade between
1880 and 1910. During this period the seeds of
decay in oar commercial marine uoere soon by
the Administration of jackson and Van Buren,
when they made the treaties with the cities OF
Bremen and Hamburg which gave those cities
the privilege of free trade to every port on our
long extent of coast. And what did they give
us in exchange? Simply the privilege of free
trade with their one port each. The effect OF
those treaties on oar freighting ships was felt
as early, certainly, as 1884, for then I was in
New York in command of ship for which
paying business could not be procured, because
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-03


The midnight chime had tolled from Marcos towers
Ger Adria's wave the trembling echo swept;
The gondolieri paused upon their oars,
Mutt'ring their prayers as through the night crep
Far o'er the wave the knell of time sped on,
Till the sound died upon its tranquil breast;
The sea-boy startled as the peal rolled on,
Gazed at his star, and turned himself to rest.
The throbbing heart that late had said farewell,
Still lingering on the wave that bore it home,
At that bright honr sigh'd o'er the dying swell,
And thought on years of absence yet to come.
Twas moonlight on venetia's sea,
And every fragrant bower and tree
Smiled in the golden light;
The thousand eyes that clustered there
N'er in their life looked half so fair
As on that happy night.
A thousand sparkling lights were set
On every dome and minaret.
While through the marble halls
The gush of cooling fountains came,
And crystal lamps sent far their flame
Upon the high-arched walls.
But sgeeter far on Adrias sea
The gondoliers wild minstrelsy
In accents low began;
While sounding harp and martial eel
Their music Joined, until the swell
Seemed heavens broad arch to span.
Then family ceasing, one by one,
That plaintive voice sung on alone
Its wild heart-soothing lay;
And then again tnaC moonlight Danu
Started as if by magic wand,
In one bold burst away.
The joyous laugh came on the breeze,
And mid the bright Exchanging trees,
The may dance went round;
And, as in joyous ring they few,
The smiling nymphs the wild flowers threw
That clustered on the ground.
Soft as O Summers evenings sigh,
From each o'erhanging balcony
Low, fervent whsperings fell;
And many heart upon that night
On fancy's pinion sped its fight
Where holier beiUgs dwell.
Each lovely form the eye might see;
The dark -browed maid of Italy,
With loves own sparkling eyes;
The fairy Swiss-all, all that night,
Smiled in the moonbeams silvery light,
Fair as their native skies.
The moon went down, and DER that glowing sea,
With darkness, Silence spread abroad her wing;
Nor dash of oars, nor harp's wild minstresy
Came oer the waters in that mighty ring.
All nature slept and, save the far of moan
OF ocean surges, Silence reigned alone.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-03
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS
CITY OF PORTLAND.
Assessors Notice.

TIyHE Assessors of the City of Portland hereby
IL give notice to all persons liable to taxation
in said city that they will be in session every
secular day from the first to the fifteenth day OF
April next, inclusive, at their room in City Hail.
from ten to twelve o'clock in the forenoon. and
from three to five o'clock in the afternoon, for
the purpose of receiving lists of the polls and
estates taxable in said city.
And all such persons are hereby notified to
make and bring 10 said Assessors true and per-
feet lists of all their polls and estates, real and
administrator, trustee, or otherwise, on the first
| day of April 1882, and be prepared to make oath
| to the truth of the same.
And when estates of persons deceased have
been divided during the past year, Or have changed
hands from any cause, the executor, administrator,
cor other person interested, is hereby warned to
| give notice of such change, and in default of
| such notice will be held under the law to pay
| the tax assessed although such estate has been
| wholly distributed and paid over.
And any person who neglects to comply with this
| laws of the State, and be barred of the right to
| make application to the County Commissioners
| for any abatement of his taxes, unless he shows
that he was unable to offer such lists within the
! time hereby appointed.
nsE~In case where the Assessors have been
| put to the disagreeable necessity of making a
| doom will the possession of Government bonds
or deposits in the Savings Banks be allowed as a
| plea in mitigation of such doom.
STEPHEN MARSH, J
| CYRUS x. LADD, Assessors.
GEORGE G. BURGESS,
Blank schedules will be furnished at the room
of the Assessors.
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The Portland daily press., 1882-04-03
FRostop Advertise ser I
The Telegraph Opposition Comedy

The Telegraph Opposition Comedy
Probably nobody is SO innocent as to be sur
prised at the information that the control of
the new Mutual Union Telegraph Company
passes into the hands of men who are fully
Company. Perhaps it would not be exactly
accurat eto say that the sole purpose in forming
the Mutual Union was to sell out to what Is
called "the great monopoly" But it is quite
certain that the projectors OF that corporation
which is about to follow all its predecessors in
to q very capacious receptacle, could not have
acted without giving some consideration to the
@ell-ascertained fact that they were perfectly
safe in expecting favorable offers of purchase
and absorption as soon as they began to make
anything like real competition with the great
er telegraph company. Accordingly the mat
ter may be treated as though the original and
only reason for the creation of the new compa-
ny was to force consolidation. Furthermore
it may be predicted with all possible confidence
that as soon as this enterprise has been safely
extinguished, there will be fresh attempt TO
start new telegraph company. 1t will be said
as it has always been said on such occasions,
that the new venture is to be areal competitor.
1t is to be kept to itself and not sold out. And
yet it will be only question of
time when it will be sold out, and
go to swell the capitalstock of the:giant corpor-
alton.
There is at present no better or safer bus-
ness IMAM bnaU OF organizing telegraph COupd-
MES. The cost of uniting the chief cities of the
country by wire is not great. When this has
been done it is entirely feasible for the new
conner to obtain liberal snare of business by
reducing rates. Thus the cream is skinned
off the patronage of the Western Union Com
pany, which cannot make SO low prices for tel
egraphing over its long lines as can a company
which has no long lines and no non-paying Off
ces. By and by it becomes necessary for the
Western Union to buy off the opposition in Or
der to stop the leak in earnings This is pre-
cisely what the projectors Of the opposition
company have been expecting and hoping for
all along, and they accept the proposition for a
consolidation with eagerness In certain
sense this is a perfectly legitimate business.
The object of the men who get up new tele-
graph company is to make money, and that
they are sure of doing whether they sell or not.
When they find that they can make more by
selling than by continuing to operate as asepar
ate company, they sell. of course. But while
such is the inevitable fate of all new compa-
nies, it does not seem to be worth while for the
public at large to take great interest in the pro-
ceedings of the speculators, or to hail the crea-
ton of new opposition lines as anything more
than temporary boon.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-03

DEAN FARRAR has contributed to the
Contemporary Review strong article on
the Revised Version, in which he stakes his
reputation as scholar and his faith as a
man on its final success, and roundly COM
pares the criticisms made upon it with the
assaults leveled at King James Version on
its appearance. Dean Farrars article is de-
voted chiefly to the criticism of Sir Edmund
Beckett, whose attacks are taken up in de-
tail and shown, with no great difficulty, to
be objections to the more accurate transla-
ton of Greek words. In other words, Dean
Farrar chiefly supports the new rendering
with the simple argument that it is better
Greek. As to its English, Dean Farrar ex-
presses a pious conviction that two Bishops,
two Deans, and two Canons, "not to speak
of all the other revisers," may be depended
on to speak good English.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-03

Dr. Samuel D. Grosshas rendered his res
ignation as professor of surgery in Jefferson
medical college, Philadelphia, on account
of his age. He is II years of age and is re-
garded as one of the foremost physicians in
America His medical works which are nu-
merous, are standards 10 this country and
abroad, and some of them have been transla-
ted into foreign languages. He is member
of medical societies in England, Scotland,
Norway, Sweden and Austria, and has re-
ceived the degree of LII. D. from Harvard
and of D c. l., from Oxford.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-03

Ex-SPEAKER Randall, who has recently
been telling his brother Democrats at Wash
ington that the Democrats willeweep Penn
sylvania this year, on account of disagree
ments among the Republicans, has declined
TO serve as member of the Democratic city
committee in Philadelphia on account of the
want of harmony among the Philadelphia
Democrats, and especially in his own ward.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-03

LIEUTENANT TODD writes that there are
three times as many officers in the navy as
it needs, and altogether too many seamen
for the number of ships. He thinks that
$1,000, 900 year might be saved by discharg-
ing men who are not of the slightest use
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-03

Rufus Bessey, an aged citizen of Albion, was
gored to death by bull Thursday night. Mr..
Bessey, being infirm and nearly blind, had
been forbidden going near the cattle, but that
night, he went to the barn and found that the
bull was loose. The bull at once attacked Mr..
Bessey, who, although being wounded quite
badly managed to make his escape and creep
into the house and tell his brother what had
happened. He died in short time.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-03


THE sshinplaster'' fractional currency, it
was supposed, sank beneath the weight OF
its own iniquity forever, but a member of
Congress has turned up who wishes to re-
vive these noisome issues. Mr.. Phelps has
introduced bill providing for the issue of
S25. .OOO, 900 of fractional currency from the
old dies still in the Treasury Department,
and the withdrawal from circulation of the
same amount of legal tender notes, so there
shall be no initiation. There is demand for
fractional paper for remittances through
the mails, where silver change would be too
bulky and its transmission too expensive.
The objections to the old "shinplasters'
were their raggedness, dirtiness, and the
ease with which they were lost, about $780,
900 disappearing every year. The Post Office
committee has framed bill to cover the ex-
igencies of the case and at the same time to
avoid the evils of paper fractional currency.
The feature of this bill is the introduction OF
a postal note at fee of three cents for the
sum of S. and under, payable to bearer at
any time within three months from the date
of issue, after which the amount can only be
obtained by forwarding note to the Treas
ury through the money order office, and pay
ing an additional three cents. 1t reduces
the money order fee on sums more than S5
and not more than $40, from ten to eight
cents. The time limit of three months will
prevent the general circulation of these or
ders as currency, while they answer all de-
mands for fractional remittances. Mr..
Phelps's measure seems unnecessary.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-03

SECRETARY Kirkwood says that he is go
ing to Iowa after he leaves the interior de-
partment to try and be a good private citi-
zen. His friends suggest that he will be
GOVERNOR
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-03

Browns IRON BITTERS is
composed ofIron in soluble
form; Cinchona the great
tonic, together with other
standard remedies, making
a remarkable non-alcoholic
tonic, which will cure Dys-
pepsia, Indigestion, Malaria,
Weakness, and relieve all
Lung and Kidney diseases.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-03
NEaine RihIe Snciety.

VyHE annual meeting of this Society will be held
Il at the Y. M. G. A. Rooms on THURSDAY,
April 6, 1882, at o'clock p. NJ.
mh3Idlw III. W. SHAYLOR, Rec. Sec.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-03
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DIR. c. W. BENSON, Of Baltimore, Md.


In the course of his practice discovered what now
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They are used by the profession at large and con-
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IT is not patent medicine. 1t is the result of his
own experience in practice. They are sure cure
for the following special diseases, and are worthy
of trial by all intelligent sufferers They are pre-
pared expressly to cure sick headache, nervous
headache dyspeptic headache, neuralgia paralysis,
sleeplessness, dyspepsia and nervousness, and '0it
cure any case. The Doctors great remedy for Skin
disease called DR.. Bensons Skin Cure is 'eedingy
valuable and greatly sought after by all persons
who have skin diseases or bad compl &on. An
excellent toilet dressing.
Sold by all druggists. Price, 80 cents box.
Denot I06 North Eutaw St., Baltimore Md. By
mail, two boxes for 81. or six boxes for $3.50, to
any address.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-03
THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 8.
The Revival of Our Shipping

The letter we publish this morning on the
decline of our shipping is from a gentleman
thoroughly acquainted with ocean traffic,
who was for many years a ship-master, and
who, since he has left the deck has been in
timately concerned with shipping affairs.
The facts he presents and the arguments he
advances are the fruit of wide experience
and intelligent observation. The force of
the reasons he gives for the decadence of
our carrying trade will be readily recognized
by the older men in the business, though
they may surprise the juniors whose recol-
lections do not extend beyond the Civil
War. The statement he makes is strong
condemnation of our neglect to protect our
merchant marine and plea for more en-
lightened self-interest in future.
Mr.. Frye's speech in the Senate the other
day was clear and forcible exposure of the
burdens under which our coasting trade is
laboring The letter upon which we are
commentingis another valuable contribution
to the controversy over the shipping ques-
ton. The recommendations made by our
correspondent deserve the most attentive
consideration by all interested in the revival
of our merchant marine. We hope to hear
from him again, and trust that his commu-
nication will provoke an edifying discussion
of matter that SO much concerns the peo-
pie of Maine.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-03
CAPE ELIZABETH.
ASSESSORS NOTICE

The Assessors of the Town of Cape Elizabeth
hereby give notice to all persons liable to taxation
in said Town. that they viii be in session at their
Office in Town House on the Sd, 4th and 6th days
of April, inst from 10 O'Clock in the forenoon till
five O'clock in the afternoon for the purpose of re-
ceiying lists of the polls and estates taxable in said
Town.
An al such persons are hereby notified to make
and bring to said ASSESSORS true and perfect lists
of all their polls and estates real and personal or
held by them as guardian, executor, administrator,
trustee or otherwise as on the first day of April,
1882 and be prepared to make cath to the truth OF
the same.
And when estates of persons deceased have been
divided during the past year or have chant ed hands
from any cause, the executor, administrator, or
other person interested, is hereby warned to give
notice of such change; and in default of such notice
will be held under the law to pay the tax assessed
although such estate has been wholly distributed
and paid over.
And any person who neglects to comply with this
notice Will be doomed to tax according TO the
laws of the State and be barred of the right to
make application 10 the County Commissioners for
any abatement of his taxes unless he shows that he
was unable tc offer such lists within the time hereb
appointed.
THOMAS B. HASKELL,
STEPHEN SCAMMAN, ! Assessors.
nj. j. PEABBLES,
Cape Elizabeth, March 25th, 1882.
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gOvernO.

purposely releasing its hold on business, in
tending to relinquish it altogether.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-03
BUSINESS CARDS.
MEETINGS
Annual Meeting.

AnnUAE NHeet1NEs
TlHE Annual Meeting of the Society for the Pre-
IL vention of Cruelty to Animals will be held in
Fraternity Hail. Free street Block, on Wednesday
evening April 9th at 1s O'Clock, for the election
of officers and the transaction of other business.
Collections from those who have so generously
m .de yet and will not be Till about 1st of May, but
all are earnestly requested to be present at the an
nual meeting and join in the organization.
LOUISA TITCOMB, Sec. pro tenn.
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Town Meeting,

TOWN MEETING will be held at the Town
IN Hall, Cape Elizabeth, on WEDNESDAY
April 8, 1882 at O'Clock in the afternoon, to see
If the town will vote to authorize the Selectmen to
hire money temporarily for the use of the twn in
anticipation OF taxes and to act on other articles in
the warrant.
THOMAS B. HASKELL, Selectmen of
STEPHEN SCAMMAN, Cape Elizabeth.
Cape Elizabeth, March 49, 1872. mh29dlw
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-03
MISCELLANEOUS
Grand February Mark Down and Closing Out Sale

COMMENCING MONDAY, JAN. 3Oth.
DEKKA SHAWLS. $40 and $15, former price, Soo.
CLOAKS, $780, former price, $4,000.
FRENCH and ENGLISH CRETONNES, 25c former
prices, So go and .75.
DRESS GOODS, 1912 to l25, fo11ne 70 to $40.
PIANO COVERS, 1920 former price, $500.
PLAIN SILKS, 10 worth LOO.
LOT DRESS GOODS, .12 Ia worth 40
LOT CLOAKINGS, less than half price
DRESS BUTTONS.
VELVETEENs and CORDURoYs, halfprice.
CIIILDREN'S WOOL HOSE,
CASSIMERES at very low prices.
BLACK WORSTED DRESS BRAID, 4 cts. per piece,
best makes. +
i. WI. DYER & CO., 5II CONGRESS ST.
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The Portland daily press., 1882-04-03
Venetian Moonlight.

BY FREDERICK MELLEN.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-03

The midnight chime had tolled from Marcos towers;
Ger Adria's wave the trembling echo swept
The gondolieri paused upon their oars,
Muttring their prayers as through the night crept
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-03
ESTABLISHED JUNE 20, lses---vOL.

TERMS: Eight Dollars Year. To mail tubscrr
ers Seven Dollars Year, II paid In advance.
The Portland daily press., 1882-04-03

Blank schedules will be furnished at the room
of the Assessors.
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Chickens VS.. Bugs.

After hoeing, scatter peck of corn
broadcast among your potatoes and
call your flock of fowls into the field.
After picking up all the corn they
find they will pick up or drive away
all the Colorado beetles. SO says
one who has tried it.-Ec.
Don't you do it. Don't wait until
"after hoeing," and don't "scatter q
peck Of corn" at one time. Unless
your flock of fowls is much larger
than is kept on most farms, peck
Of corn will be more than they can
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Of near a hundred Dominiques, while
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seldom visited by the fowls, and
planted TO Mammoth Pearls, has
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