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AUGUSTA, ME., SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 5, 1870. NO. 31. JUiuubcc Jflitrnal. Published on Water, Foot of Court Street, AUGUSTA, MAINE. BY SPBA61E, OWEN A NASH. Sailg Jttnntlitc Journal Is issued every morning, except Sundays. Coutaius the latest news by telegraph and mail, and gives the proceedings of the Legislature iu full, also reports of proceedings of important commit tees and the Agricultural and Educational depart ments. Terms, #7 per annum in advance; $8 it payment is not made within the* year. Single copies 4 cents, o be had at the book>tores and at this office. Advertisements one inch in length, three in sertions or less. $1.00; 25 cts. for every subsequent insertion. Longer advertisements, or those inserted for any considerable length of time, will be inserted at favorable terms to the advertiser. Special Notices 25 per cent, additional. Amusement Notices, $2 per square per week. 'Meehln jtenncbff Journal, Published every Wednesday morning, J» the largest folio paper in the State, containing news, political articles, agricultural and scientific matter, tales, poetry, anecdotes, household recipes, markets, Ac., Ac. Terms $2 per annum in advance, Transient Advertisements, $1.50 per ineh for first week; 25 cents per week for each subsequent insertion. 8peoial Notices, $2 00 per inch for first week 50 cents per week for each subsequent week. Business Notices, in reading columns, 20 cents per line for first insertion; 10 cents per line lor each subsequent insertion. All transient advertisements to be paid for in advance. i I L C 9. . C. L C. r, s, SOMES’ Oyster, Fruit and Confectionery SALOON! Opposite Masonic Block, Gardiner, Me* i THE BEST OYSTER COOK in the State. Solid Oysters, 50 cents per quart. 7, 9, O. To the people at large. Who this notice may read, And yourselves in Gardiner should find : If you want a good stew. You should know where to go lfs to Somes’, 7, 9, 9. C. T. SOMES, Gardiner. Jan. 1st, 1970. ♦lj in70-tf State of Maine Bonds, 1889. \IrK »re prepared to negotiate with parties for , T nelling these bonds at a Bm.AU Oommlsalon, or will pay the Highest Market Rates for »amc at their BANKING OFFICE in Freeman'* Bank Building, ifafailff, .Voiae. B E POTTEK A BROTHER. Augusta. Jan. 17, 1870. tldjun-lw — Brewster’s Hotel, SKOWHECAN, ME. THIS large and commodious Hotel is situated at the head of the Falls on the Kennebec river, in the enterprising village of Skowhegan, the terminus of the Portland *t Kennebec R R. This is one of the best arranged Hotels for family borders there is in the State, and a better place for Summer resort, cannot be found in Maine. The best of water, beautiful drives on the banks of the 1 river, fishing ami sailing ponds in the vicinity, trout brooks, where you can catch an abundunce of the spotted brook trout any day In the year. Prices for permanent or transient boarding are verv low, so our customers can afford to come often and stav a good while. We also have a large airy stable to board horses for the guests that wish to bring their teams with them. Also one of the best half-mile trotting parks in the State, is connected with the House, tree for th»* guests to train their horses or drive for pleasare. tlTJan-t! S. B. BREWSTER, Proprietor. Brushes! Brushes! HAIR, CLOTH, DC ST, SHOE and Stove Brush es, a full assortment for sale low' bv BALLARD X CHASE, May 20, 19G9. * G Union Block. D. S. NELSON, MANUFACTURES TO MEASURE, LADIES' AND GENTS FASHIONABLE BOOTS tfc SHOES. Repairing also neatly ami promptly done. Shop in Boot anil Shoe store with K. Lyford, above Bridge street, Augusta. tjantt-tr BATH HOTEL, By O. AX. Plummer, BATH, HE. Board, flljan-ly $1 per Day. CONY HOUSE, l»\ir£H ST K MS Mi T, AUGUSTA, MAINE. THIS new Hotel afford* accommodation* that no other one doe* in the city to the travelling com munity, being located iu the CENTRE OF BUSINESS, and very near the Depot. The travelling public may be assured that no pains will be spared to meet all their want*, and with the assistance of Mr. Turner, late of the Augusta House, we hope to merit a share of the public patronage. Connected with this House is a First Glass Livery Stable! G* A.n A H. COXY, Proprietor. • HJanAwttf _ Hotel Notice. fTUIE Gardiner Hotel having been thor l oughly repaired, and eatlrvdy new fur nished, will lie opened Widne.dar, I*«c. 15th. OLIVER C. ROLLINS. Gardiner, Deo. 13, I860. flJanTO tf MANSION HOUSE, i STATE STREET, : : AUGUSTA, ME. r|^IIIS House is provided ^rit'o Bath Rooms, JL where Hot and Cold Baths can be had at ail times. It has also a First-Class Billiard Hall, for Guest* only. Connected with the House is a large and commodious Sample Room, on Water Street, centrally located, where Sample Agents can show their gomls, free of charge. The Proprietor, thankful for the liberal patronage which the above House has enjoyed since its open i ing, takes pleasure in informing his patrons that he , will ruu Free Carriages to and from the Cars ami » Boats until further notice Connected with the above House is a Livery Sta ? ble, where good teams can be had at reasonable rates. W. M. THAYER, Proprietor. G. V. Cochrans, Clerk. GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! AJDAJvgsoixrs BOTANIC COUGH BALSAM! IS MOKE VALUABLE THAN GOLD. TRY IT! TRY IT! TRY IT! IT CURES THE WORST COUGH or COLD IN A SHORT TIME. IN LARGE BOTTLES, at - - - 35 Cents. ISTo C3u.ro ! No Pay ! FRANK KINSMAN, DRUGGIST, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL AGENT FOR THE UNITED STATES AND CANADAS. Cough no more when you can be Cured for 3 r» Cents I TRY IT ! TRY IT ! TRY IT ! 1870. JANUARY. 1870. EXTRA INDUCEMENTS TO BOYERS. "We have this Day HARKED DOWN OUR PRICES’ SO AS TO CE STOCK. LOOK ! LOOK | LOOK ! THINK AND REFLECT On the Following Prices : Overcoats for Overcoats for Overcoats for Overcoats for Overcoats I warranted all wool) Overcoats (heavy Black Beaver) OUR STOCK OF PANTS AND VESTS, MATCHED SUITS, -and GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS! Ot every description we ofler for the NEXT THIRTY DAYS, AT EQUALLY LOW PRICES. CALI. AND SEE US, and we guarantee that you will get your money’s worth at the ONE PRICE CLOTHING STORE. S. W. Huntington &> Co., 190 Water Street, Augusta, Maine. *4.75 6.00 7.00 M.OO 9.00 10.00 | MOSES M. SWAN, Watchmaker and Jeweller, American and Swiss Watches, in wold and silver case, including the celebrated National or Elfin Watch, Waltham, Tremont. Bor* quin, Bonnctt. Pardeaux. Jacot, Ac., in both La dies’ and gentlemeu's sizes. Fliio Grolcl owolry, Solid Gold Leouiton Vest and Neck Chains, STERLING & COIN SILVER GOODS, FIXE PLATED WAKE, SPECTACLES AND EYE GLASSES, of the most approved kinds. CLOCKS OF ALL KIXDS, including the celebrated ITHACA CALENDAR, all of which will be sold at the Lowest Prices, and Warranted. Particular attention given to repairing all kinds of Fine Watches. Chronometer Balances applied and adjusted to temperature and position. tljan70-tf &A Jan. To be Let. IIOU8E with II good rooms, corner of Wmthrop and Winter streets. Apply to 1870. fjant tf WM. T. JOHNSON. FOWLER, HAMLEN & SMITH DEALERS IN FOREIGN & DOMESTIC DR Y GOODS, AND MANUFACTURERS OF Ladies’ & Misses’ Cloaks, OPERA CAPES, A o., «£■<•., 147 Water Street, -A- XT GUSTA, IVT E . ! l. n. fowler, FRED HAMLEN tlSjan-tf H. E. SMITH. DKLI, NinOWDN' Fashionable Hair Dressing Rooms, Opposite Parrott A Bradbury’s, Water Street, j Augusta, Me. Shaving, Shampooing, Hair-Dressing, Cutting, Col rn'ina, Ac., in the most approved style of the art. Particular attention paid to rutting and curling La ilies* and Children’s hair. All kinds of Hair Work to order in the latest style. Ijan70-ly HENRY BAILEY, Photographer, 8 Doors south of Post Office, Augusta, Me Melainotype Pictures of all sizes made at oppo sition prices. Particular attention paid to copying. tljan70-3m THE KENNEBEC JOURNAL, (Established in 1825.) Enlarged and Improved. A POLITICAL & FAMILY NEW8PAPER. Not Excelled by any in tbs State. Just Enlarged and Printed on New, Plain, and Handsome Type! Having Full Reports of Legislative proceedings; I carefully prepared Political Articles, Facts and stu- ; tistics; Local. Domestic ami Foreign News; Corres pondence; Tales, Poetry, Agricultural and other Miscellaneous Matter. So Increase of Subscription Price—A (iood Time to Subscribe. The Weekly Kennebec Journal. The Kennebec Journal is in the Forty-fourth year of its age. It has just been enlarged, and is now a THIRTY-SIX COLUMN PAPER, Its size not being exceeded by that of any other paper in the State, and surpassed by but few in other States. It will contain Carefully Prepared Political Articles, Facts, Statis tics, Speeches and Extracts; Full Reports of the Proceedings of the Maine Legislature; Reliable Information in relation to mat ters pertaining to the State Govern ment; Reports of the Doings of Cougress ; Local and State News; Summaries of Do mestic and Foreign Reports oi the Markets at Home and Abroad; well se lected Tales, P o e t r y, Agricultural and other Inter esting and Useful Reading for the Family; also Correspondence from Abroad and original Articles upon subjects of Gen’l Interest. It has been enlarged from Twenty-Eight to Thirty-Six Columns, in width, and proportionately increased in length, and is printed ou an Entire New Suit of Type, Making it one of the Handsomest and Most Readable, as well as one of the CHEAPEST PAPEES IN PEICE, published. The price of subscription has not been increased on account of enlargement. Now is the Time to Subscribe! Tf.rms : $2.00 per annum in advance, $2.25 at the end of six months, and $2.50 at the end of the year. Published every Wednesday. Daily Kennebec Journal, Will be issued every morning, (Sundays excepted,) on and alter the first of January. Will give Full and Accurate Reports of the Proceedings of the Legislature from day to day; Reports of Im portant Hearings before" Committees; ‘Abstracts! ot Discussions in the Boards of Education and Agriculture; will have the Latest News bv Tele graph the same as other dailies, and will also have Editorials, Correspondence, Locals and the usual Summaries of News, also the most Import ant Speeches of the Session. The Discussions in the Board of Education will give New and Additional Importance to the Daily Journal, as it will contain reports of them. Terms, $7.00 per year; $2.00 for the Session. tRT Members of the Legislature will do their con stituents and themselves a favor to interest them selves in getting subscribers to the above publica tions. The Daily keeps up that correspondence between the People and their Representatives, through their Legislative Reports, which is neces sary and agreeable to both. No Tri-Weeklv will be published. Those peisons who desire a full report of the Legislative Proceed ings, must subscribe for the Daily Journal. Postmasters and Members of the Legislature authorized to take subscriptions. The Weekly and Daily Kennebec Journal are published at Augusta, Maine, by 8PEAGUE, OWEN & NASH. HARNESSES! For Business, Pleasure, Teaming, Truck ing, Carting and Expressing, Manufactured from good And by the best of workmen. We would remiud the public that our Harness took all the premiums offered at the last State Fair —lour in number. Also the first premium ut the late New England Fair. As our customers are daily informed that our Harnesses are Machine Stitched—we would invite them and the public generally to call and examine the largest stock of ready-made Harnesses ever of fered in this city, and we will convince them that we make the best Band Stitched work to be had for the same amount of money, and if we don’t have on hand what is wanted, can make it at short notice. Samples of Gold Gilt, Oroide Silver, Covered, and Japanned Trimmed HARNESS may be seen at onr salesroom, NO. 172 MIDDhK HTHEET. HENRY DUNN & SON. For «a!o by HAMILTON & TURNER, 135 Water Street, AUGUSTA, MA.IKTE, Opposite Deering A Holway’s. f28Jau-lia GOVERNMENT OP MAINE, 1870 GOVERNOR, Joshua L. Chamberlain, Brunswick. COUNCIL. 1st District, Uranus 0. Brackett, Berwick. 2d District, William Deering, Portland, «kl District, William Rogers, Bath. 4th District, Ambrose II. Abbot, China. 6th District, Edward It. Spear, Rockland. 6th District, J oseph W. Dorter, BurliugtoD. 7th District, D. K. Hobart, Dennysville. executive omtm Franklin M. Drew, Brunswick, Secretary of State. George G. Stacy, Ketar Falls, Deputy Secretary. Janies R. Milliken, Portland, Chief Clerk. B. B. Murray, Jr., Pembroke, Adjutant General. Augustus L. Smith, Augusta, Clerk to Adjutant General. George N. Page, Norridgewock, State Peusion Clerk iu Adjuiant General’s office. William Caldwell, Augusta, State Treasurer. Sylvanua Caldwell, Augusta, Treasurer’s Clerk. Parker P. Burleigh, Linneus, Laud Agent. GOVERNORT STAFF. John M. Brown, Portland, Colonel, Assistant Inspector General. Eugene F. Sanger, M. D., Bangor, Colonel, Assistant Sur geon General. AicLi-de-Camp, with rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Selden Connor, Thomas W. Hyde, George Varuey, Nathan Cutler. Albert O. Morgan, Lewiston, Military Sec’y to Governor. Prentiss M. Fogler, Augusta, Messcn'r to Gov. and Council. Benjamin F. Harris, Machias, Su{»t. of Public Buildings George L. Goodale, Brunswick, State Assayer. Cyrus F. Brackett, Brunswick, State Assayer. Darnel Winslow, Westbrook, Inspector Gen. of Beef k Pork. David Fernald, Camden, luspector General of Fish. Geo. F Dillingham, Oldtown. Agt. Penobscot Tribe Indians. Geo. F. Wadsworth, Eastport, Agt. P;t8Aanta<iu’y Tribe In. Albert W. Paine, Bangor, Hank and Insurance Examiner. Asa W. Wildes, Skowhegan, j Samuel H. Blake, Bangor, £ Railroad Commissioners. Solomon T. Corser, Portlaud, ) SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT. John Appleton, Bangor, Chief Justice. ASSOCIATE JUSTICES. Edward Kent, Bangor. Jonas Cutting, Bangor. Jonathan G Dickerson, Belfast] Charles W. Walton, Portland. William G. Barrows, Brunswick. Charles Danforth, Gardiner. Rufus P. Tapley, Saco. ATTORNEY GENERAL. Thomas B. Reed, Portland. INSANE ASYLUM. Ilenry M. Harlow, M. D., Superintendent and Physician. Bigelow T. Sanborn, M. D., Assistant Physician. TRUSTEES. William B. Lapham, M. D., Woos lock, President E. L. Pattangall, Pembroke. John T Gilman. M. D., Portland. M. R. Ludwig, Thuinaston STATE PRISON Warren W. Rice, Warden. Elbridge Burton, Deputy Warden. INSPECTORS. William Wilson, lion. Rufus Prince. STATE REFORM SCHOOL. Hon. E. W. Woodbury, Superintendent. TRUSTEES. Hon. Noah Woods, Bangor, President. W. E. Gould, Portland, Secretary. Hon. Nathan Dane, Alfred, Treasurer. Hon. Jeremy W. Porter, Strong. Tobias Lord. Stiindish STATE COLLEGE Of AUKlCrLTTRE AND TIIE MECHANIC ARTS Trusted Hon. Abner Coburn, Skowhegan, President. Hon. Thomas 8. Lang, Augusta. Hon. William P Wingate, Bangor. Hon. Lyndon Oak, Garland. Rev. Samuel F. I»yke, Bath J. C. Madigan, lloulton. Hon. Isaiah Stetson, Bangor, Treasurer. Samuel Johnson, A. M., Orono, Secretary. Executive Committee. Hon. Win. P. Wingate, lieu. Lyndon Oak, Hon. Thomas S. Lang. Examining Committee. Joshua L. Chamberlain, LL. I), ; Rev. Ainory Battles; Hon. Thomas S. Lang. F acuity. Merritt C. Fernald, A. M., Acting President and Professor of Mathematics and Physics. Samuel Johnson, A. M., Farm Superintendent and In structor in Agriculture. Stephen F Peck ham, A M., Profrssor of Chemistry. Calvin Cutter, M. D., Lecturer on Anatomy, Physiology and Hygene Corydon B. L&kin, Instructor in Book-keeping. Captain Henry E. Sellers, Bangor, Instructor in Military Tactics. BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. Samuel Wasson, Ellsworth, President. D. II. Thing, Mt. Vernon, Vice President. S. L. Goodale, Saco, Secretary. M. C. Fernald, Orono. ) S. P. Peck ham. Orono. Charles E. Ilanden, Waterville. ^ Members at Large. Cyrus F. Brackett, Brunswick. I George L. Ooodale. Brunswick. J MEMBERS FROM COt'XTIIW. Seth Scamman, for Cumberland County, Scarborough. Wildes P. Walker, Sagadahoc County, Topsham. William Swett, Oxford County, South Paris. Levi L. Lucas, Somerset County, St. Albans. Ira Doe. York County, Saco. Elyah B. Stvck pole, Penobscot County, Kenduskeag. Samuel Wass-in, Haucock County, Ellsworth. J. Yarnum Putnam, Aroostook County, lloulton. Jeremiah R. Norton, Franklin County, Avon. Luther Chamberlain, Piscataquis County, Atkinson. Moses L. Wilder, Washington County, Pembroke. Isaac Hobbs, Knox County, South Hope. Daniel 11. Thing Kennel»ec County, Mt. Vernon, tleorge E. Brackett, Waldo County, Belfast. Z. A. Gilbert. Androscoggin County, East Turner. Calvin Chamberlain, (State Society,) Foxcroft. John Bodge, Lincoln County, Jefferson. COMMON SCHOOLS. Warren Johnson, Topsham, State Superinteadenl. Joseph F. Duuniug, Clerk of Superintendent, Portland. COrNTY SCPERVISOMS. Androscoggin, C. B. Stetaon, Lewiston.J Aroostook, W. T. Bleeper, Sherman. Cumberland, J. B. Webb, Gorham. Franklin, A. H. Abbott, Farmington. Hancock, Charles J. Abbott, Castine. Kennebec, W. H. Bigelow, Clinton. Knox, G. M. Hicks, Rockland. Lincoln, D. S. Glidden, Newcastle. Oxford, N. T. True, Bethel. Penobscot, 8. A. Plummer, Dexter.' Piscataquis, W. S. Know! ton, Morion Sagadahoc, D. F. Potter, Topsham. Somerset, G. W. Hatheway, Skowhegan Waldo, N. A. Luce, Freedom, Washington, W. J. Corthell, Calais. York, M. R. Mabry. MAINE EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION. President, J. II Hanson, Waterrllle. Vice-president, C. C. Rounds, Farmington. Secretary and Treasurer, C. B. Stetson, Lewiston. ex terms committee. J. II. Hanson, Chairman, Waterville. C. B Stetson, Lewiston. A. P. Stone, Portland. J. S. Barrell, Lewiston. W. Johnson, Topsham. C. C. Rounds, Farmington. J. P. Gross, Brunswick. G. T. Fletcher, Castine. J. B. Webb, Yarmouth. COMMITTEE ON STATE VALUATION. John P. Hubbard, Hiram* Seth Scamman, Bcarbnro’. Alvin Currier, Farmington. Nehcmlah Smart, Searsmont. Abel Prescott, Canaan. Reuben 8. Prescott, Bangor. Partman Houghton, East port. Enoch Knight, Portland, Clerk of Commissions STATE LIBRARY. Joseph T. Woodward, Librariaa. * ©real Improvement in Artificial Teeth. DR. SNELL INSERTS Teeth on RrnnEK by a new protean, by which the plate is matte as’ thin as a metallic base; at the same time the plate is flexible, and less liable to break. This mode insures likewise the certainty of a perfect tit. Having purchased the exclusive right to use this mode in Kennebec county, I shall be happy to show its peculiar advantages to any one who needs arti ficial teeth. 69 Winthrop Street. AiiguBiil, .ran. 38tli, 1870. N9Jan-3wA3w6 Srl.PlIlTF. OK 1.1>IK, for proserTinr Cider Also, White Mustard Seed, for sale low bv tU TITCOHB A DORK European Correspondence. Letter from Orville D. Baker in Spain. Valladolid, Spain, ) Dec. 2t>, 186‘J. ( It is only three days since I sent off my last epistle, but I am going to start an other eagle. I left you, or rather my self, at Bordeaux, Wednesday night. Well, the next morning I went abroad to see the city. I found a museum of paint ings, which is certainly fine tor a place like Bordeaux, and contains some rich speci mens of the Italian school, including Paul Veronese, Correggio, and a noble specimen of Titian and Andrea del Sarto, several excellent Murillos (Spanish school) and a fine Velasquez (alsoSpanish). There was also a room devoted to the French school, but these I never admire excessively, for they deal too much in gaudy whites, and their colors want entirely that softness and harmony which characterize the old masters, and which, 1 suppose, must be classed with the lost arts. Yet this is the gallery which Harper, with his usual ac curacy, sets down as a museum containing some very indifferent paintings. After spending some hour or two in these, I went to the Cathedral which is not very remarkable, and then to the old Roman amphitheatre, whose, noble gate way, with its arches four deep, and part of whose walls are still standing, and, though worn with time, are almost as per fect as in their proudest days. They in dicate at once the permanence of Roman art and the antiquity of the city, which in deed was well known to the Romans under the name of Bordigala. Then 1 went into the famous wine cellars of Barton and Guestier, who were ray bankers there. Bordeaux is the centre ot one ot the three great wine districts of France, and is per haps the most important of any of them. The two others are the Champagne near Rheims, and the Burgundy near Dijon. Their cellars are sunk to the depth of two floors and are of immense extent, contain ing some 2000 hogsheads and IJOO.OOO bottles besides. It may be kept barreled four or live years, anil then must be bot tled, when it continues to improve up to ten years, and may be kept even twenty. Almost all the best wines of France are exported except the Burgundy, which is consumed at home. The quality differs ns much in wines of the same name as in those of different, and you may have Champagne and yet have a much poorer wine than wine from another part of France. These general names such as Champagne embrace a wide district, and many subdivisions. The quality of the wine depends on the soil which may pro duce a good wine and a poor one within twenty feet of each other. They always have their tirst. second, third and even fourth quality, and each vineyard is known to produce u certain quality which usually j is called after the name of #the vineyard. This quality, again, of course, varies with different years. All the soils which bear these wines are thin, arid and sandy. The vine simply grows upright and very low, never higher than a man’s head, usually less. They are planted in rows like beans, each with an upright pole, which, when 1 was passing through, they were just tak ing up and laying in bundles, each bundle in the crotch of two forked poles at regu lar intervals. These wines are all light and contain only some twelve per cent, of alcohol, while our American stuff, 1 suppose, has sometimes, eighty and ninety. Everybody drinks, but 1 never saw any body intoxicated except the lower classes. It is a frequent sight to see them too heat - ily loaded, especially Sunday night, in the streets. They are always singing and shouting, but it is a noticeable thing that they never do the slightest harm, being | always either too happy or too stupid. The police never pay the slightest atten-! tion to them, and though they are noisy, they don't compete with the French stu dents who come home from the theatres and cafes from twelve to three at night. Noise is one of the prerogatives ol Paris at night, and that though in other respects it is a marvel of order. 15ut the compara tive purity of their wines here deprives them of that fatal excitement, which is the mother of crime,-so that intemperance is a question of morals here instead of I government as in England and America. That same noon I left for Bayonne at 2 1-2. Met two English ladies on the cars, who had a courier, e., one who takes charge of everything, interprets for them, and is factotum. They went to Pau, a famous summer and winter resort near Bayonne. They were very pleasant. There were ten or twelve other English 1 on the train going the same way, none to Spain. By the way, they talk about Amer icans travelling. I always meet live Eng lish to one American, except perhaps in Paris, and there I was thrown, of course, into American society. But the English are everywhere and fairly encumber the ground in some parts of the continent. Stumbled on a nice little hotel at Bayonne, got a nice, though simple dinner at a res taurant close bv and a nice omelette, which they make much better than we, and a i splendid beefsteak and potatoes in the, morning at the hotel; rnftle friends with the landlord, who gave me a guide book for railways in Spain, and some addresses in Madrid, and left. They speak a patois down there in the southwest of France, which is half French and half Spanish, and accented like neither- From Ilavonne to Burgos through the Pyrenees of which I had some tine views. They sire not very high at this point, but are all covered with snow, which even lies on the growing crops at their foot on the Spanish side. A little stream divides, and a bridge con nects the two kingdoms at this point. One side is French, the other Spanish. You change ears there and climate soon after, to your infinite disgust in each instance, for tlie cars leak, and they seem only to have caught it from the skies, for they leak in a most alarming way. You then get your baggage examined, which is a farce, and begin a ride which is a tragedy. The cars which in France are almost empty are now filled, sensible people going 1st class, greenhorns going 2d. YVe hobbled along as far as a place known to fame under the cognomen of Zurnarraga. The hobble became a dead halt at o P. M.; and the change was so eminently satisfactory to the boss whoever he was, that it was kept up merrily till 8 P. M., Providence and the Spaniards alone know why, and I had no means of making either divulge. The rain meanwhile turned to snow, under the temptation of increasing cold, and as there was no sign of a tire we passed a jolly Christmas eve, thinkirigof the “sunny skies" of Spain. At 8 the halt was ex changed for a crotchety hobble, which af ter sundry other mysterious relapses, brought us to Burgos at 3 o'elock in the morning about four hours behind time, and cold enough to emit sparks like a oat in winter. Three inc hes of snow everywhere. 1 inally got to my hotel where 1 found a large saloon, and went to bed in iey splendors. Such a sunny clime! Christ mas morning, more iey splendors. Mean while1, however, 1 had learned the word for tire, and rattled it with a pertinacity and animation, which must have astounded these enervated denizens of the tropics. Modus operandi. Act 1, scene 1. Bell rings—enter servant gibbering Spanish. I stop that and shout fire. Servant disap pears with a beam of intelligence. Inter val of ten minutes for the chief actor to get mad. Bell rings again—enter phan tom as before. “I want a fire.” Si, si, signor. Exit phantom No. 2. Curtain falls. An intermission of fifteen minutes, during which, renewed application of the diction ary. Scene 11. Bell rings violently— ghost enters as before. “I want a fire note." Third ghost vanishes, perturbed, and wagging his head. Scene closes on an interval during which some trees are planted and come to maturity. Scene III. Stage occupied by a small boy, and some wet wood, which he proceeds to arrange round a match. Curtain falls, leaving the stage shrouded in smoke, from which a blaze may be supposed gradually to emerge. Finally went to the station at 5 1’. M., for the train for Valladolid. It was delayed by the snow, (about two inches) and would not be in till 10o’clock. Wait ed till eleven, and found the train was about 100 miles oft’, and did not know when it would come. Went back to hotel and went to bed, after waiting only one hour for some bed clothes. Next morn ing at 5, A. M., took a first class and got two great vessels of hot water to my feet —the luxury of first class, rolled myself in my two robes, and got to my destination two hours behind time. Slowest nation that ever breathed. Two-thirds of all I have seen are beggars, and.wear the most ragged patchwork you ever dreamed of. Got a nice double room here, a coal tire, and a very nice table d'hote. They charge by the day in Spain as with us. Shall stay here till to-morrow night, for it is the first comfortable place 1 have found. Ground all frozen. Heard military mass to-day, which was very interesting from its splendid martial music. The Spaniards appear to have much more musical taste than the French. They sing beautifully, and their soldiers march better than any I have seen in Europe. They are almost all boys. I expect this climate will last t. 1 I pass Madrid, ami then warm. These are high lands, near the mountains and treeless. Photographs & Melanotvpes, At the same OLD PLACE, At the name OLD PHU'EH, viat 9 1-9 »u< Pictures tit Cards for 50 cent/. 4 1-4 “ “ 50 “ 4 1-4 “ in Card envelopes, 50 cts. 1 5x7 “ in Mai, 50 “ 16 TINTYPES for 35 cents. A good assortment ol iR.inix iLiu ns, Ac., note on hand. W Paiuoular attention given to copying. 5 Door* south of the Poat OOke, hICISTi, MI. tljan70-3m H. BAILEY. Watmttte Classical Instftnfc. ' i v 11K -spring Term will lieglii Eebkiakt lint. 1 Eor particulan applv to .1 H HAXSON. Principal Waterville, Jan. SI, ]S70. »feb! codAJwts