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THURSDAY MORNING, May 12, 1870
KMTBI.HWN STATS ( OWr.MION.
The citizens of Maine who rejoice in the progress
of Human Freedom and Equal Rights, achieved by
the Nation under the direction of the National
Republican Party during the part decade; who
heartily second the administration of President
Grant in its measures to secure nation::! prosperity
by the retloration of confidence abroad and tran
quility at home; w ho endorse it# wise policy for the
reduititiu Um national debt and applaud it- mic
reseful endeavors to establish economy and honc.-ty
in the administration « t the Government; who ap
prove th<- record of the party in Maine on all
questions of public policy, including it- eon.-tent
ami Ftraiglit-forward cffoit.- for the suppression of
the evil- of intemperance, are requested to -end del
egates to a State Convention, t<« be held in
Granite Hall, Augusta. Wednesday, June 15th, 1M0
at eleven o’clock A. M* for the purpose of nominat
ing a candidate for Governor, and to transact such
other business as may properly come before the
Convention.
The basis of representation will lie as follows :
R ich city, town and plantation will be entitled to
one delegate, and one, additional delegate i«>r every
75 votes cast lor the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor in isfi8. A fraction of 40 votes will be entitled
to an additional delegate.
Delegates are required to bo actual residents ol
the municipality they claim to represent in the Con
vention.
The State Committee will liQ in ,( esslcn in the Re
ception Room of the hall at 9 o’clock on the morning
of the Convention tor the reception of the cmUntial
of delegates, and to hear and determine all cases of
contested elections, subject to ratification by the
Convention.
James (i. BEAink. Chairman.
WM. P Fit YK, 1
CYitrs M. Power*,
Frederick Home,
WM. F. Lowf.ee, republican
Jos. II. West.
Pave Steven*,
s. s. Mariiek,
Timothy \v u.kf.u. \ State
Wm. 1* Wingate,
STANKEY T. PEEKES,
J W. tVAKFFIEI.il,
Hi ham Know kton, Committee
N. G. TlK'REOlMill,
cii \iiees B. Paine,
gem. II. Kn ow Eton, ,
AN ISSUE BETWEEN THE PORT
LAND ADVERTISER AND OUR
SELVES AS TO A MATTER OF
FACT.
We have been studying for several days
past whether it were worth while to take
any farther notice of the Portland Adver
tiser's continued and causeless assaults on
Speaker Blaine. After our exposure of its
utter misrepresentations of Air. Blaine’s
course on President Johnson’s vetoes of
the Freedmcn’s Bureau and Civil Bights
hills, we were prepared for its silence
and did not of course expect thmnagna
nimity of a retraction or an amende, hut
we confess ourselves surprised that even
the Advertiser should venture to say that
the “ records of the 0lobe are not in accord
ance with the Journal's statements." In
order to vindicate our own statements we
propose to see precisely what those records
arc.
In volume 67 of the Globe, page
1720. under date of April 2, 1800, General
Schenek, then chairman of the military
committee, made the following statement
to the House in regard to the army hiU,
° * j
and we now quote the paragraph entire,
having previously only given so much as
relates to the question of absence.
“Xow sir, it may relieve gentlemen to know !
that the committee liave had a sub-committee
at work on this subject, that they are prepar
ed to report a bill, but that the gentleman j
from Maine (Mr. lllaine) who is on the sub- ]
committee which has had the- subject in i
charge lias been called away suddenly by the
deatli of a near connection in Boston; he is
thcr.- now, and the committee would prefer to
wait tor a pi riod of about eight days,"during ;
which, ns 1 understand by letter and tele- !
graph from him, he may be detained there,
before making their report.”
President Johnson’s veto of the Civil
Rights Bill was sent to the Senate .Match j
27th, aud was under discussion in that i
body at the time of Gen. Schenek's state-!
incut—not being voted on there till the Gth
day of April, it was entirely impossible
to anticipate the time when it might be
voted ou in the House.
On the Ctli of April the contested elec
tion case of Dodge vs. Brooks was decided
iti tbe House. At the conclusion of the
roll call Mr. Hice of Maine, said, (see
Globe, vol. 67, page 1819:) .
“I am paired on this question with my col- i
league (Mr. Blaine.) If lit were lure lie
would vote tor the sitting member and I should 1
vote against him.”
Oil the 10th of April, the motion to re- ■
consider the vote by which the House had .
rejected the Bankrupt Bill some time
before, was called up and decided by yeas
and nays. At the conclusion of the roll
call, Mr. Bike of Maine, said(, sec Globe,
vol. b7, page 1673:)
“Upon this question I am paired with my
colleague, Mr. Blaine. If he were lure, he !
w ould vote against the reconsideration and I
would vote for it.”
Now be it remembered that the veto of j
the Civil Bights Bill was acted on in the
House on the 'Jth day of April—and yet
the Portland Advertiser persists in its
statement that Mr. Blaine was present and
“sat silent during the debate and at the roll
eatl."
The Globe shows that Mr. Blaine re
sumed his seat in the House on the 13th of!
April, and the Army Bill was immediately I
taken up on motion of General Schenck.
So much for the absence of Mr. Blaine
when the veto ol the Civil Bights Bill was
disposed of in the House. The evidence
in the Globe a» to his absence from sick
ness when the Preedmeu’s Bureau veto
was disposed of is equally conclusive, i
That veto was voted upon in tile House July
lOtli. The files of the Kennebec Journal!
show that Mr. Blaine arrived at home in
ill health on lb - bth of July. Not recov
ering Ins health sufficiently to return t<>
Washington during the hot weather, the
Globe of July 10th, volume .7J, page 3711,
lias the following record :
"Tuc .Si-*.*iu.u. The chair lias been re
quested by the gentleman from Maine (Mr. !
Blame) to a»k leave of absence for him for
the rnnnuidc/' of the session on account uf in
dtsaosition. Leave was granted.”
Six days after this record, the vote on
the veto was taken iu the House, and the
Portland Advertiser persists in its state
ment that 31r. Blaine w as present “and
scit si!: n! during the debate and at the roll
call."
“What, your Honor,” said a prosecuting
atttomev, “can be done with a man who
‘ swears falsely and sticks to it. “Let him
lie'' responded the Judge “and pick up the
I next witness!"
i Thus much we have said to vindicate
our own accuracy of statement and to
convict the Portland Advertiser of a wan
ton and perverse misstatement with the
verv evidence of the truth in the hands of
it' editor. As far as Mr. Blaine is con
cerned tiiere was indeed no necessity of a
word of defence from the beginning.
Hav ing voted for the vetoed bills at every
stage of their enactment his record was
complete—and as to his avoiding a con
lliet with the President we would be glad
to have the Advertiser state what .Mr.
Blaine's course was during the ensuing State
campaign of lSOtv. He not only con
ducted it with his usual activity ns chair
man of the State committee, but especially
represented Gov. Chamberlain in a series
of public discussions with the democratic
candidate -Mr. l’iilsbury, in which diseus
hous the very points involved in these
vetoes were the main points of contro
versy. But we forbear further remark.
If the Advertiser thinks its course towards
Mr. Blaine in this matter has been decent,
; becoming and fair, we leave it to the free
enjoyment which such a conclusion must
j inspire.
TIIE ME FA 11L A SO—RICH A111) SOS
CASE.
The verdict of acquittal in the McFar
! land cast! is no surprise to the public; its
[justice, however, is a question upon which i
I opinions will differ. How far Mrs. Mc
Farland had good cause morally to sepa
rate herself from her husband, how much
(hat separation was due to improper in
ilucnce by Richardson and others, and
j how far the separation was legal, are
i questions not settled by the trial and re
I suits. While with the question of fact
before the jury—whether McFarland was
guilty of the murder of Richardson—they
were supposed to have no weight, never
theless they will have much to do with
public opinion as to the justiliablcncss of
the verdict. Upon the point of the in
sanity of McFarland caused by jealousy
and hatred of Richardson, the hinge upon
which the verdict is supposed to liavt
tuna d, there is also the broadest ground
for disagreement. We are not aecus- j
tomed to see a jealous husband bottle up ■
his insanity for so long a time as MeFar- i
land appears to have done, to have been
sane enough to all common and partieu- [
lar observers in everyday affairs, and !
to be able to bear the constant sight ,
of and intercourse with the man who !
he bclived had injured him, and all at '•
once burst into insanity over his wrongs.
This is not the way in which jealousy
usually operates. The first pang is the 1
maddening one. We can readily believe
that at such a moment a man may become
bereft of reason, and tired with sudden
passion seek vengeance in the blood of
his wronger, as Sickles and Cole did and
others have done, but we have the very
gravest doubts of this long suffering in
sanity urged in justification of McFarland.
It may be so but it looks unlikely; we do
not believe the jury founded their verdict
upon that theory, nor that it will be ac
cepted as even plausible by the public.
MRS. RICHARDSOS'S STATE ME XT.
The following is an abstract of Mrs. Rich
ardson's statement published in the Tribune
yesterday: *
\.vuw, unci i iia»c w iuiru in puuciice lor a
verdict of the newspapers, of the public, and of
ii New York Court and jury, I have decided that
I will speak the first and last words I shall
ever speak for myself. And this Is what 1
mean to do; To write as exactly as I can the
whole and simple truth to the minutest detail,
reserving nothing and extenuating nothing.
In doing this I neither ask nor expect sym
pathy or justice from the press or the public.
1 married Daniel McFarland in 1857. I was
a girl of IS), born in Massachusetts, and edu
cated in New England schools. 1 had been a
teacher, and was just beginning to write a lit
tle for the press. Daniel McFarland was an
Irishman of 37 or 38, who had received a par
tial course at Dartmouth College, and had.
seven years before I knew him, been admit
ted to the Massachusetts bar. When 1 mar- j
l ied him, he represented himself to he a mem- j
her of the bur in Madison, Wis., with a !
flourishing law practice, brilliant political
prospects, and possessed of property to the
amount of from $20,000 to $30,000. He also
professed to be a man of temperate habits, of
the puri st morals, and. previous to my mar
riage, appeared neither intemperate, nor bru
tal, nor profane. After marriage we went
fir>t to Madison, Wis., being detained till Mr.
McFarland could borrow money to continue his ;
journey. We returned to New York in Feb- I
ruary, 1858, Mr. McFarland leaving his watch
and chain in pawn at a Rochester hotel to pay ,
bis board bill ” In less than three months
after their marriage, Mrs. McFarland went !
home and for fourteen days did not hear from
her husband, whom she left in New York. In
answer to a telegram lie came to Mr. Sage’s,
in New Hampshire, and then, for the first
time, she had a suspicion that he might be in- j
temperate. During the summer of 1857 Mfs.
McFarland remained at her father’s, and in j
the fall returned to Brooklyn, living with her :
husband in two or three hired rooms, and he 1
here first began to come home intoxicated.
• lie would come home sober, bringing with
him bottles called Scheidam Schnapps, con
taining a quart or so of the vile liquor, and he
would put them by his bedside and drink
mmetimufc the whole before morning. When
[ begged him not to do so he said, ‘His brain j
a as on fire,’ and that this made him sleep.
I bis is the first time that he began to tell me
tbout *11 is brain being on fire,* which was a
i favorite expression with him after he had |
tieen drinking, and to which so many peopls
have testified to his using on his recent trial
lor his life. As this was two or three months
before my first child was born, and as all my i
senses were nervously aecute, and as I was,
also, as I believe, a woman of refined taste
and feeling, his breath and whole body steam
ing with the vile liquor which he drank during
these nights while I lay awake beside him
made him very obnoxious to me, so that be
fore 1 had been married to him a year my
affection for him was very much chilled—1
might say nearly destroyed. ”
Mrs. Richardson then recites at length the
story of her husband's increasing brutality
and the poverty of their roving life umorig
New York boarding houses and lodging rooms,
her narrow and straightened circumstances,
feeble health, and utterly deplorable condi
tion. The narrative covers the time from
1850 to 18(50, and the following are among the 1
most striking incidents:
“At Christmas, 1802, I was so anxious to
have Percy with me, ami I lelt so hopeful "t
doing well during the winter w ith the dramat
ic readings which I had la-gun. that 1 sent
Mr. McFarland on to New Hampshire to get
Percy, who had been all this time at my lath
er**. On this occasion Mr. McFarland took
with him all the little stock of jewels I pos
sessed—my rings, brooches, w atch and chain
—which had by this time been so frequently
pawned and repawned that 1 did not care for
them—and sold them all in Poston. 1 hese
were the last jewels I ever possessed except a
plain gold ring, which is the wedding ring
placed on my hand by my dead husband.
Mr. McFarland was unspeakably cruel to me
the fall arj^l winter of 1802 and 18(53 while we
boarded at 58 Varick street. We occupied
the only sleeping apartments on the parlor
floor and he could give full scope to his fu
ries without fear of being overheard. He
would lock hiltiself into the room with me and
give way to such terrible fury that only the
extremest pride and self-control prevented
me from making my misery known. ll«
brought home what he professed was prussic
acid, and threatened to take it and to force
me to take it also. He would snatch my
scissors from my work basket, and laying
open his breast, he would brandish them about,
swearing that ‘he would let out his heart’s
blood’ before me. lie told me then, a shrink
ing girl, that lie kept loaded pistols, with
which lie would at any moment shoot me. He
left one evening, declaring that he would
shoot a gentleman, because lie had been
invited .to join himself, his wife and anoth
er lady in a party to some public picture
gallery, although I had, at the most, a gener
al acquaintance with the party, and refused
the imitation as soon as made, (hie morn
ing during this winter which I am now de
scribing. alter Mr. McFarland had been out
nearly all night in a drunken orgie, and had
risen from bed in one of his worse tempers,
I approached him as he stood by the mirror
finishing his toilet, and began to say some
thing soothing to prevent the outburst of his
ill temper, which I feared was soon coming,
when he turned and struck me a Mow across
my face, which male me reel backward.
From that I took an entirely different course
with him. When in one of these furies I had
shed a great many tears under bis cruelty.and
bad tried to reason with him, and had tried
entreaties and persusion ; after this, whenever
lie was in one of his paroxisms, as he himself
called them. I never moved nor spoke, but
keeping peructiy sen-eomroiieu. as in as 1
could, 1 got quiet, always keeping my eye on
him, because 1 always fancied as the longer 1
looked steadily at him he would not do me
any mortal violence. And I believe now* as
I believed then, that my life was saved by this
silence and self-control.
lie lias sometimes approached me with his
hands extended, and fingers bent like claws
as if he were about to clutch my throat, and
cried, ‘How I should like to strangle you,’ or,
’Your life is hound some time to end in trag
edy/or, ‘Your blood will be on your own
head,’ and has, as I think, been restrained be
cause I simply looker! at him. without raiding
a word. In these furies he would often seize
and break anything which was at hand—lamps,
glasses, mirrors and sometimes the heavier
furniture of the room. Often he would rise
from bed in these uncontrollable fits of pas
sion, tearing away all the bed clothing, tear
ing in shreds his own night clothes, throwing
anything he could find which was breakable,
crashing about the unlighted room till it
seemed to me there could he no pandemonium
worse than that in which 1 lived; and all this
he would do w ithout explanation or even a pre
text for complaint against me, and when I
knew no more what excited him than a babe
unborn. He would sometimes keep up this
conduct and this abuse for hours, without a
syllable or a motion being made on my part,
and he would then burst into tears, begging
my pardon, say I was the best woman that
ever lived, and then go to sleep exhausted.
Sometimes he said, ‘Your —— silence irrita
tes me more than if you talked.’ In the win
ter of 1803 and *04 we were'at Mr. Sinclair’s,
our neighbors. One night while there Mr.
McFarland came home so bruised and bleed
ing from some street brawl (a common occur
rence on his part ), that I was obliged to call
on Mr. Sinclair for aid in getting him to bed.
It was only two or three w'eeks before the
death of my youngest child, or I should not
have done so. This event kept Mr. McFar
land in his room for more than a week. 1
carried his meals to him myself, that his dis
grace might not be seen and commented on by
the boarders.”
Mrs. Kichardson also narrates her efforts to
support herself and her children by writing
for papers and magazines ; the greater part of
her earnings being appropriated by McFar
land. She declined aid from the Sinclairs
from motives which could not allow her to re
ceive charity, and mentions McFarland’s pro
curing a thousand dollars in January, 18(><>,
by blackmailing an oil land owner of Penn
sylvania. threatening to expose irregularities .
in his income returns if he did not give him
money. In the winter of 18(50 she first met |
Mrs. Calhoun, and January lid. 18*57, after
unusually harsh and inhuman treatment from
her husband, wrote her the letter giving the
statement of her wrongs, and appealing for
sympathy and advice, which Airs. Calhoun
answered in the letters which were read on
the trial. In this Mrs. Kichardson says:
“Dear—I try to write these things coldly
and mechanically. 1 want to do so, so as not
to be unjust, hut I must write you. I feel ,
that I must let you know something of my in
ner life, and of the struggles that no one can
see, or I shall die. 1 don't know what to do,
or what course to take. 1 want to be advised.
I have written these wild words incoherently.
I know writing is not my natural method of
expression to get some of this weight off of
me, and 1 have tried to write justly. I know
1 must in some way protect myself from Mr. :
McFarland’s mode of revenging any careless
words upon me. I have half made up my j
mind to-day to tell the Sinclairs 1 feel the en
croachments of his habits, I dread my future
so much, and I have my babies to think of In -
side. Yesterday he drew two weeks of my
salary at the theatre and paid the week’s
hoard bill, and, I fear, will spend a good deal
of the money, which we need so much, in
liquor. Don’t come to me after reading this.
I fear I shall repent writing it. Yours always.
(Signed) A1111Y.”
“On the evening of February 20, 1807.*’
says Mrs. Richardson, “before going to tin*
theatre, I secreted his razors, his pocket
knife, my scissors, and all articles I consider
ed dangerous, as 1 frequently did on such oc
casions, and left hiui; hut when I came home
he was still raging. He frequently had made
threats of committing suicide, going out of
doors with that avowed purpose. On this oc
casion, about midnight, he hade me an unusu
ally solemn ‘eternal farewell,’ and told me
that tins time he was certainly going out to
destroy himself, lie had done this so many
times that 1 said nothing and made no effort
to detain him. At the door he hesitated, and
asked if I had nothing to say in their last
parting. I suid, *1 can only say that 1 am
hopelessly sorry for you.* He went out and
in a few moments returned, as I knew he
would, cooled and sobered by the cold night
air, and then, it being nearly morning, as
mildly and firmly as 1 possibly could, I began
to talk with him. 1 told him decidedly that
1 should leave him forever; that I had home
with patience for many years great outrages
from him; that he had made my life mis
erable, and had often put me in great
dread of my life; that 1 could not endure j
it any longer; that by his outrageous conduct
for the two days past, and by the language he
had used when he had found me at Mr. Rich
ardson's door, he had added the last drop to
my cup of endurance, and that 1 should go
away from him at once. On this he groveled at
my feet in the most abject penitence, lie
wept, sobbed, and begged me to forgive him.
He confessed that he had wronged me, and
that no woman would have borne with him as
1 had, and about daylight went to sleep ex
hausted. The next morning 1 did not allude
to my purpose, hut after seeing him leave the
house for Mr. McHrarth’s office, 1 went to Mr
Sinclair’s and placed myself under the pro
tection of hi- roof, sind never afterward saw
Mr. McFarland, except once or twice in the
presence of others.”
Mrs. Richardson then passes to a statement
of her acquaintance with Richardson, which,
before his coming to room at the same house
in Amity street, had been very light and form
al. “There was never,” she says, “prior to
my leaving McFarland, a word, or even a
look, passed between us which I should not be
glad. now. ifall the world had -cell and heard.”
The day that Mr. and Mrs. McFarland sepa
rated, Riehard.-on told the latter, “This is a
matterin which I cannot advise you, but what
ever you make up your mind to do, 1 shall be
glad to help you in.” “'File evening after tin*
separation took place Mr. Richardson called
at Mr. Sinclair’s, and stayed an hour or two
With the family. When lie arose to leave, l
went to the door to say what I could not say
before the othcis. that he bad been very, very
good to me, that I could never repay him,
but that God would surely bless ldm for it.
At this. Mr. Richardson, still bolding my
band, which I had given him to say good by.
stooped down, and speaking in a lower tone,
said these words: 'I wish you to remember,
my child, that any responsibility you choose
to give me in any possible future I shall he
very glad to take.* I think those were his
exact words, and with this he went away,
without a single word being spoken by either
of us.”
Mrs. Richardson first heard of an inter
cepted letter after the first shooting, and nev
er saw the Utter or knew its contents till it
appeared in joint. “ The letter was a mix
ture of jest and sentiment, which any one
who knew Richardson would readily under
stand. I shall not go on to explain it point
1»v point, but the allusion to hi- love for me
being the ‘growth of years’ was simply a sen
timental expression a- to a jioint of fact. I
had known him only a few months, and had
been acquainted with him not more than a lew
months.”
I Ilf If null mo I n .»! I >. i» n;u u-i’i:
incut dctaii- the circum.-tanivs of her resi
dence in Indiana lor sixteen months, during
the whole of which time she never saw Hich
ardson. though in his jounn y ings he frequent
ly avoided passing through the city where she
stopped, that there might he no cause for
scandal. On Octoberol. 1>6‘J. she returned to
her mother’s free, and on Thanksgiving Day
met Hichardson. The statement briefly pas
ses over the facts of the marriage at the As
tor House, and concludes with a denial of
nnv desire lor revenge on McFarland, “hop
ing with ail my heart that he may escape the
barbarous penalty of a barbarous law.”
Richardson's letter to Junius H. Browne,
which was offered on tlie trial ami excluded,
evinces a full acquaintance with Mrs. Mc
Farland's wrongs and -offerings, and express
es his most earnest determination to make
her his wife when site would he free. It i s It
fuller and more confidential expression of his
feelings and intentions than was contained in
Richardson's card that was j ublBhcd in the
Tribune shortly after the lir>t shooting.
The Tribune will also contain the affidavit
Charles \. Richardson, executor, that the
Richardson property does not amount in value
to more than $23,000 or S2J.000, and that
Mrs. Hichardson lias steadily refused to re
ceive the benefit from any. except so much
as i> necessary to t locate Richardson's chil
dren.
I..1XD-GRABBERS DEFEA TED.
•
Washington. May o.
The Senate began to-day with its u-ual de- i
bate upon the order of business, the perilling I
question being the resolution to adjourn on
the 4th of July next. The morning hour cut
this short, but the discussion was soon renew
ed on the motion of Morrill to take up his ap
propriation bill. Mr. Howe said candidly :
“Everybody knows we will not adjourn until !
we have provided for our pay.” By 28 to 26 |
the Senate refused to accommodate Mr. Mor
rill, and took up the bill to provide for the
sale of the reservation and trust lands of the
Osage Indians. Mr. Rose discoursed coolly
and skillfully in favor of his amendment to
sell a large portion of these lands to the rail
road companies at the nominal price of twenty
cents per acre. Mr. Pomeroy followed in a
brief, Oily-Gammon speech for the bill, and
all seemed lovely for the Indian-land lobby.
At this critical stage Mr. Morrill (of Maine)
rose, and proceeded to expose the enormities
and frauds of the bill with a vigor, clearness,
and point that were perfectly overwhelming.
Hardly since the session began has so sturdy
a blow been struck at the corruptionists. The
hits were keen and pitiless. The land-grab
bers looked as if a bombshell had fallen in
their midst. Senators came over from the
other side of the chamber to hear the speech,
Mr. Richard Yates, even, among the number.
It appeared that after this seizure of trust
lands in violation of treaty at a merely
nominal price, the idea was to give the In
dians a new home, but the price was to come
out of the proceeds of the present lands, so
that possibly the Osage nation would be
brought in debt. Finally the bill was
passed over by 26 to 18, an indication that the
bill is dead. After this there was a fresh dis
cussion upon the order of business, which
ended in giving precedence to Mr. Morrill’s
appropriation bill.—*V. V. World.
GENERAL NEWS.
General Fremont is recovering from an ill
ness of several days.
At a r< cent locomotive explosion near Tole
do, pieces of the boiler, it is said, were thrown
over a mile.
A colored woman in Georgia died recently
from the effects of the bite of a spider.
Smilax says his family consume a great
many onions, for the reason that when one
eats them the remainder have to do so in self
defence.
New York lias 500 horse-cars in daily use.
It is estimated the license is paid on hardly j
one-third.
William Hagan, the newlv-elected vice j
president of the Fenians, is a compositor, em
ployed on one of the daily papers in New
Yolk.
Ait Illinois grave-digger who buried a man
named Button, sent a Gill to his widow its fol- I
laws: “To making one Button-hole, 3d.50."
Cyrus W. Field was in Washington on Sat
urday to explain the Pacific cable plan, at the j
request of Congressmen.
Lancashire has a proverb to the effect that
“a dear plant wi’ a mon’s t liaiitii on’s a vany '
goad tiling, hut a dinner pluat wi' a mon’s din
ner on’s a better.”
George Francis Train pruelaims Kiel a bel
ligerent. When Train arrives at the White j
House he promises to acknowledge Winnepeg
as an independent republic. •
Emerson says the chain of western rail
roads to the Pacific lots planted cities and civ
ilization in less time than it costs to bring an
orchard into bearing.
An Indian near Fort Scott recently traded
two mules for a set of false teeth, and proudly
wore them, necklace fashion, around his
neck.
33 O S "W ORTH
lltvix; KEIlOVEk) TO
(U Doors south of Bridge street,) which has been expressly fitted up for his business, where
will be found a VERY LARGE STOCK of
SPRING WOOLLENS!
Of the Latest Fashions,
WHICH WII.T, BE Cl'T AND MADE VI* TO OliDEII IN THE
V o r y JLb ex test Style.
Also, tv I EE BE FOUND
A LARGE STOCK OF
Heady Made Clothing,
-AND -
G Gists’ Furnishing Goods
OF EVERY DESCUI1TION.
If. r. HOSWORTII.
Augusta, Mar. 7th, lt*70. +7mar-tf
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M A N S 1 O N HOLS K,
SI STATE STREET, : : AUGUSTA, ME.
^ r | ^ IIIS II >u*e is provided vrila Bath R-*>m£,
^ I wh* re H*>t and Cold Baths can l>e had at all
jy times. It has also a First-Class Billiard Hall, f**r
W tiu 'sts only Connected with the House is a large
■T and commodious Sample Room, on Water Street,
centrally heated, wh* re Sample Agent* can show
raj their good*, free of charge.
S' The I'r »prietor, thankful f<>r the liberal patronage
® which the above IF use has enj< yed since its • jx-n
W i ig, take* pleasure in informing his patrons that he
II* will run Fre-.* Carriage* to aud from the Cars ami
U • it- until further notice
Connected with the alx.ve House is a Livery Sta
ir hie, where good teams can lx- had at reasonable
rate*. \V. >|. TIIAVKK, Proprietor.
O. I*. Cochrane, Clerk.
r±- ir 1:
Mutual Benefit
LIFE COMPANY
Of Hartford, Conn.
'■Mil* company was incorporated at the la ~r scs
1 sion of the’Connecticut LegMature. with a
guarantee capital of $2ou.uu0, and offers the only
mutual system of Lite Insurance.
Single Membership Fee, $ 9.00
Membership for Man and Wife, 18.00
This in a full division In*tires your life for Fivi:
Tikm sam* Dum.akh.
This is the cheapest and jno-t reliable plan of
Life Insurance that eau be adopted.
SIDNEY A ENSIGN, \VM H. GILBERT,
/* resident. Secretary.
IIILLM\\ SMITH, Agent for Kennebec A Somerset
Counties,
fOaprAlmlji* ArorsTA, No. 8 Union Block.
Millinery Goods
SELLINCC CHEAP!
The subscriber being about to remove from the
state, will sell her stock of
MILLINER IT GOODS
TIIE DEM It A IS EE STAND !
which she now occupies,
At ;i Very low Price!
Those desiring Millinery Goods will tlo well to
give me a call, as it is my purpose to dispose of my
entire stock.
lor terms npplv at the Store, North’s Block, op
posite swan’s Jewelry Store.
LIZZIE A. CAGE.
Augusta, May 3,1S70. t-m
ROUTT With the sticky, fllthy,
LJ (J. a I dangerous Hair Prepera
tioiis hut u-e Nature's
Ituir It c n t o r a t i v c ,
which is perfectly clean
and transparent, and en
tirely tree from all dan
gerous drugs. It will
positively restore Gray
llair, prevents the Hair
from falling off*, will cause
kjr it to grow when prema
D L turely lost, removes* dand
ruff and keens the head
in a perfc tly healthy con
dition. Try’a bottle and
be satisfied’ that it is the
greatest discovery of the
age. PROCTER BRUv,
Gloucester, Mas.-., Solo
Agents for the Patentee.
All the Maine Druggists
POISONED h‘v,;;“uU^fc„,
Cutlery and Plated Ware!
A full assortment of
Tabic find Pocket 4'nilccy, Sci*sor§,
TE.i TIMPA, JV.
Also Plated Tea Sets, Ice Pitchers, Goblets,
Knives, Spoons, Forks and Castors of
the best quality, at
PIERCE’S CROCKERY STORE,
A'u. 159 Water Street - - Augusta.
im»y2-ttf
Female Compositor Wanted!
Apply at the Journal Offkt. fS.ipr tf
SPKRJIATOUIItEA or Seminal Weak
ness.—Howto treat and'Uiv it without medi
cine. Pamphlet sent bv mail live of ehaig *. Ad
dre-s DR. II. C. NEWELL & CO., Lock Box 12*3,
Haiti bid, Conn. iiiud
A. P. GOULD,
-DEALER IN' —
S”XtOX?r3SSS,
WOOD & COAL FURNACES,
IUXoISTKUN, Are.
Particular attci.t on paid to setting IIOT AIK
FERN ACES. Also Agent for the new
PEERLESS COOKIXG STOVE,
THE SAMPLE COOK, and
CXIOX PORTA RLE RAXGE.
STOVE REPAIRS,
Jhn/ips find Lend ]*ipe. Tin, lirittannia,
and Toilet Ware.
itfg-TIN KOOFING, and all kinds of JOBBING
promptly attended to.
1 I)o«r North of llnllrnnd Itildgr,
Water Street, Augusta.
|nnlS-tftw4tf__
HOUSE FOR SALE !
I WISH to pell the reiy desirable
ho line and lot I tow o < upy on
the coi ner of Winthrop & Pie isunt
streets.
I. s\EI.E.
125,1870. ■ ,v \\ J \v
ALL klMLS OF J0BB1MJ
ANI)
Ilppairin^ Done Jit
fa|>rl-3in Williamson & Greenwood’s.
Notice to Teachers.
r|MIE Superintending School Committee of Au*
1. gu*tu, will be in t-eesiou at the
Council Chamber, Cranite Building,
— ON —
Wednesday, the 27th day or April,
i*.t 1 o'clock P M., and on each mi receding Wednes
day fo r l bur week*, for the ptirpo.-e of examining
tca’chcr.-for the Miminer schools. Di-trict Agents
and others interested are invited to be present.
SAMI El. I PJOHN,
t E. PENNEY
Augueta, Apr. 11, ls70. &dl7
F1 OB El O S TO \ !
Spring Arrangement !
\\rILL commence her regular trip* flora the
yy Kennebc . Monday, April 11, 1S70, and will,
until further notice, run aa follows:
Leaving Gardiner every Monday and Thursday
at 3 o’clock, Richmond at L and Bath at 0 P M.
THE STEAMER CLARION,
Will leave Augusta at 12 M., Hallowell at 1 45 P
M., connecting w ith the above boat at Gardiner.
For further particulars inquire of Longfellow A
Sanborn, Augmda; II Fuller it Sol), Hallowel ;
T B. Grant, Gardiner; J.T. Robinson, Richmond;
J. E. Brown, Bath.
Gardiner, April 11, 1870. ♦IDupr
OILS,
rUKE SPERM, CASTOR, OLIVE. NEATS-FOOT,
and ESSENTIAL OILS ot all kiuds, at
Johnson Brothers.
Oil. CLOTH CARPETING !
AT
WUl!aw»ou & Cireeunuodb.
Remnants! Remnants.
JUST KECEIVEIJ I!V
Barton & Russell,
A y O Til 1: II LOT
OK THOSE REMNANTS, OF
BI50WN ( OliOVS!
lu the following width®:
3-4, 4-4, 0-8, 0-4, 10-4.
The above Goods are the production ol the
well-known
Androscoggin Mills,
And will be sold
From .7 to Cts. per yd.
UNDER PRICE.
Barton A Paisscll.
Augusta, Mar, II, 1870. t!*niai-ir
Crockery, China & Glass.
PHK I N ItEDUCED !
Tlic prices of Crockery. China and Glass Ware at
No. ISO Water Street,
Are marked clown to meet the fall in Gold
mny2-ni J. I> PIERCE & SOS.
AI.L ORDERS FOR THE
Patent Composition Hoofing;,
w ill be promptly attended to.
Roofs covered with tin* be-t of j-to< k. in the mod
durable manner and warranted.
Paints & Oils.
riUC'ES KEDVCED,
From Fire to Ten I*er Cent.
Also, Just received, ft full stock of the celebrated
“HUSSEY PLOW!”
Now selling at trhvlcsale prices.
AMOS V/IIBER.
l!i3 VVATEIl **tki;i;t,
Augusta. Maine.
t21aj>r*2w
,3. 1J. a.ilss* »V CO.,
Millwrights and Machinists,
AND MANLFACTUItLItb iiV
Ladd's Excelsior Turbine Wheel.
Cl lid'I, Ml AND l PKIG1IT
BOARD SAWS
Manufactured at the lowest tsa.-h prices.
Planing and Sawing,
In all its branches done in a workmanlike manner.
ORNAMENTAL BRAUKETS,
Of every description, furnished on short notice.
Shop on Water St.. Gardiner, Me.
.1 K l.ADI),
taprnn-.Jm W s. Bit ANN.
WILLIAM II. WOODBURY,
Successor to E. D. Norcross,)
- DEALER IN —
Hot Air Furnaces, Stovesk Ranges,
For NVood or Coni,
Tin, Pressed, and Japanned
wahes :
and KIJCIIES GOODS generally.
TIN ROOFING & JOBBING
OF AI.L KINDS
Promi.il) »tli‘D(li'<l lo
tJT Special attention given lo Ktt
Hot Wir I'nriinoc« !
.4 feu• Doors south of the Railroad Bridge,
Water Street, Augusta.
tl2mar&w-ly
A Laundry in Angnsta.
riMTF, rnbscribcr hai opened a I.Al’NDItY nt her
X residence on Capitol street. in Augusta, where
Fhe would be happy to serve all in
Washing & Ironing!
The work will be done in the best style, and
At Reduced Prices !
MBS. S. A. FOWXEB.
Capitol Street.
Augusta. April 7, 1870 thapr-dni
MOSES M. SWAN,
Watchmaker mat Jcucllcr,
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His Stock embraces a fine line of
American and Swiss Watches,
in gold and silver case, including the celebrated
National or Elgin Watch, Waltham. Trcinont, Bor
(min. Bonnett. Bordeaux, Jacot, «Jtc., in both La
dies’ and gentlemen’* r-izef.
Pino Gold Jewelry,
Solid Gold Leoniton
Vest and Neck Chains,
STERLING & COIN SILVER GOODS,
FINE PLATED WARE,
SPECTACLES AND EYE GLASSES,
of the n»o*t approved kind*.
CLOCKS OF ALL KINDS,
including the celebrated ITHACA CALENDAR
all of which w ill be fold 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
Foremost in the Bank of Music Books !
Richardson’s
NEW METHOD
FOlt THE
PIANO FORTE.
Its fvoat popularity Hill continues.
Annual Sale, 25,000.
Price 83.73. Sent post-paid to any address on
receipt of price.
OLIVER DITSON & CO.,
277 Washington Street, Boston
C. H. DITSON & CO.,
7U Broadway, New York.