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AUGUSTA.
MOM DAT HOBNIHO. DSC. 19, 1870.
The position of Senator Schura, as ex
plained by hfs own remarks,Is one dictated
almost exclusively by the politics of the
State to which he belongs. It amounts to
that and nothing more. The result of the
Senator's experiment even in Missouri is
somewhat problematical. 1 he grand
question is not how it will atlect the ad
miniatration but whether Schurz and his
party can keep any standing in the State.
The democrats are beginning to canvass
fora candidate to be supported for the
Presidency in 1872. New York wants
Hoffman and the west supports Pendleton.
The Hoffmanites say Pendleton's green
back record disqualifies him, and the IVn
dletor.ians retort that no candidate of New
York will stand the ghost of a chance be
fore the people on account of the notori
oualy corrupt character of the democracy
in that city. In the war of words there is
considerable truth told on both sides.
The Canadians are in trouble. Follow
ing President Grant's ungracious declara
tion that they must behave better or he
would be obliged to curtail some of the
privileges they now enjoy through the fa
vor of our government, they learn that
there is good reason to believe the British
government is not pleased with their bad
course toward our fishermen, and will not
sustain them in it if they get into difficul
ty. Some of the papers whine piteously
over the matter but that makes it no better.
The certain recovery of Senator Morrill
from his Jong and severe sickness is a
subject of hearty anil general congratula
tion in the State, and is hailed with plea
sure by his colleagues at Washington.
Thera is no ilnnbt now of his complete
restoration to health, or that the Legisla
ture about to assemble will return him
again to serve In the Senate of the United
States. One of the best, most practical
tributes to his worth as a Senator is found
in that part of the President's Message
which speaks of the satisfactory condition
of our Indian Affairs.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
A very fascinating book for j outhful rend
ers is one jnst issued by Harper A Brothers,
entitled “Adventures of a Young Naturalist.”
The scene of these adventures is Mexico. A
naturalist starts upon one of his periodical ex
cursions in that country, and takes with him
his young son, a lad only nine years old, but
anxious to accompany his father and see and
know more of the wonders of the world in
which he lived. In the excursion they trav
eled over a considerable part of Mexico, noted
its hills, valleys, plains and mountains; its
flowers, plants, shrubs and trees; its serpents,
beasts and birds; concerning all which the
father was careful to instruct his child. Be
side the store of useful information thus con
veyed to the reader, the book is full of chap
ters of thrilling interest, of strange adven
tures, wonderful sights, and has not a page
that the reader will not enjoy. It is hand
somely and profusely illustrated and may be
found for sale at Clapp & North’s Bookstore.
■ Harper & Brothers publish among their new
works one by Paui Du Cnailiu, the great Af
rican explorer. Its title is “My Apingi King
dom, with Life in the Great Sahara.” The
Apingi country is in Africa, near the equator,
and south of it, so the author says. The peo
ple were strange and superstitious, the moun
tains and forests grand and gloomy, and a
river flowed through the land. Our writer
had acquired a great deal of influence over
the people and they made him their king.
The book opens with the narration of their
bniliUng a hundred canoes, to go down the
fiver to the tea in, for the purposes of traffic
and discovery. What he did and saw among
these strange people, his description of the
Great Desert, his hunting, fighting, and the
customs of the people, is as marvellous and
interesting as anything in Robinson Crusoe.
Clapp & North have it for sale.
a ninny the paper covered volumes issued
by Harper & Brothers are two recent ones,
“From Thistles —Grapes;” a novel written by
a lady Of talent and good sense; and “tin the
Trail of the War,” which is the work of an
occasional correspondent of the London
Times, who has been a witness of the Franeo
Prussian war, and gives a good account of it
as far as the failure of the attempted armistice.
For sale by Clapp A North.
The lunttnry number of Our Young Folks
is received from the publishers. The boys
and girls will be delighted with its Christmas
and New Year reading.
GENERAL NEWS.
Laced boots arv supplanting buttoned ones
in New York.
Seven nationalities are represented in the
Niltson troupe.
The new Queen of Spain is said to be intel
ligent and well educated.
On the Sandwich Islands it is contrary Vc
law for a man's mother-in-law to visit him
without an invitation.'
A Massachusetts farmer made two thous
and dollaas last fall by selling burdock roots.
Memphis has decided to furnish its pout
with soup tnd coal.
A lady died recently in Boston, aged eighty,
who had not been out of the house for forty
yaars.
There will be fifty-three Sabbaths in the
year 1471, the first and last days of the year
being Sunday.
“What it home without a mother?” as the
young lady taid when she sent the old lady
to chop wood.
Under the ctern laws in Wabash county,
Iod., several women have been indicted for
sewing on buttons, blacking shoes and cook
inf on Monday.
Four tchoonert arrived in Portsmouth last
Monday, which sailed only the day before,
bringing whit them an aggregate of 75,000
pounds of fish.
For the first time In many years, the Re
hnWican* have jnst carried Norwalk, Conn.
This sort of “re-nction,” is not what the
Democracy covet.
The Tall Mall Gazette argues against the
declaration of Paris, of 185G, because it may
have the effect of transferring the carrying
trade almost entirely to the United States.
George Anson Byrgp, eighth Baron Byron,
whose father was cousin and sucessor of the
celebrated poet, is dead. He was married,
but childless, and his nephew, a lad of fifteen
years, succeeds to the title.
There ure more than 28,000 Post Offices in
the United States, but only a little rising one
thousand are of the classes requiring appoint
ments from the President. The others are
appointed by the Postmaster-General.
A near-sighted young man in Indianapolis
went to see his girl, and found her father
peeling potatoes, with his wife’s apron on.
He got on his knees and proposed to the old
man real quick, “before the old folks should
come in,” and was driven from the door with
a butcher knife for his pains.
The new postal cards in England suggest
expedients formaking lliomsecret. Invisible
ink is advertised, systems of cipher are
brought out, and instructable languages are
adopted. Doctors, bishops and archdeacons
correspond in their best Latin.
The last advices from Andrew Johnson
represent him as about to begin a crusade
against those Democrats in Tennessee who
insist upon making secession the touch stone
and service In the .Confederate army the sine
qua non for office. Tennessee Republicans
do not hesitate to predict that by 1872 he will
be fully prepared to support General Grant’s
re-eleetion.
The remains of a man were found last week,
across the boundary line between Maine and
Canada, in a piece of woods where formerly a
lumber operation was carried on. There was
only the skeleton, some brass buttons, and a
pair of army shoes on the bones of the feet,
remaining. It is supposed that some bounty
jumper, as long ago as during the war,
in the act of deserting, lost his way in
the woods, and there, through fatigue, hun
ger and exposure, perished._
SENATOR SCHURZ ON MISSOURI POL
ITICS AND VIS FRAN CHJS EM EE T.
On Thursday the Senate took up the res
olution offered by Mr. Schurz declaring in
favor of the remo'val of all political disquali
fications as soon ns the imperative public ne
cessity which dictated their imposition ceased.
Mr. Schurz then delivered an address of un
usual length, to which the Senate listened
with attention.
lie reviewed the history of party divisions
in Missouri, for which he said he and those
who acted with him had been denounced as
traitors to the republican party. The inter
ference at the solicitation of his colleague
[Drake] of the national executive by which
the State contest had acquired a more than
locnl interest, and the subsequent defeat ol
the President, with all his patronage, by a
triumph of the very principles upon which he
had been elected. The probabilities of the
formation of the new party nucleus, and the
prospect of the reforms in the civil service
and revenue, were also referred to, commenc
ing with nn allusion to the resolution as an
expression of the sentiment which received an
emphatic endorsement at the recent election
in Missouri, and to the existing agreement be
tween his colleague and himself, that his own
speech should be made before the withdrawal
of the latter from the Senate. Mr. Schurz
proceeded to show that the disfranchisement
of persons engaged in the rebellion was a
temporary, experimental measure of safety,
rendered necessary by the new social condi
tion of the South, consequent on the close of
the war. He held that the removal by the
party which imposed them, and, while still in
its ascendency in the government, of all dis
qualifications, especially the exclusion of large
numbers of people from the ballot box, was
essential to the restoration of a fraternal feel
ing, and as proving that such measures had
not resulted from vindictiveness, but necessity,
and as bringing the late rebels to the full
realization of theirshare with ourselves in the
institutions and greatness of a common coun
try. Such were amongthe reasons governing
his course in the late movement. Quoting
from a resolution offered by himself in the
national republican convention in 18G8, de
claring the republican party to be in favor of
the removal of political disabilities as soon
as compatible with the public safety, and
welcoming back to the Union the loyal peo
ple among the late rebels who would accept
the new order of things, he said this was part
of the platform on which Grant was made
President. How had that promise been car
ried out in Missouri ? Only by a victory over
the republican party, instead of upon its good
faith and by its assistance. When therefore,
the party had resisted enfranchisement, after
pjirty honor had commanded them to grant it.
what hope could the Republicans have of
winning over to their ranks the re-enfran
chised? The principal opponents of the
movement within the republican ranks were
those whose political slock in trade consisted
of the battle cries of the civil war, who would
forever roll the “rebel" as a sweet morsel
under their tongue, and that class of politicians
whose whole end in political life was to mo
nopolize local affairs. Mr. Schurz denied, as
not in accordance with the fact, the assertion
of bis colleague, in a printed speech circulated
in the Senate. The opposition was not so
much to enfranchisement itself as against the
constitutional amendment ns a method ot ef
fecting it. lie referred to some fifty or sixty
newspapers, which, led by the central organ
at St. Louis, directly protested against the
tiling itself. In order to prevent the endorse
ment of the enfranchising amendment to the
Constitution, the republican State convention
manipulated in advance by giving to the col
ored voters in the State representation double
that allowed to the white people, and so dis
ciplining them that that race, against w hom
so many prejudices were still alive, should, in
Missouri, cast their virgin franchise to con
tinue the disfranchisement of others. The
speaker's successful efforts in the convention
in behalf of the enfranchising amendment,
until he and his friends went out from the
convention, carrying with them, ns lie claimed,
the honor, principles and banner of the republi
can party, were successively referred to, as
also the sweeping character of the political
disqualifications in Missouri, where by the
provisions of the State and Constitution, per
sons could ho disfranchised not only for dis
loyal acts, hut for sympathy expressed or
implied even of the remotest kind; consistent
Union men of life-long devotion to the
government for merely expressing a hope
that their relatives in the rebel army would
return home safely: disfranchises for sym
pathy witli those engageil in the rebellion,
lie knew scores of niun who served three and
four years in tlw Union army, and had been
disabled in the service, disfranchised for
harmless language uttered. The atrocity of
the abuses developed under the system of
disfranchisement was shown by the speaker
at some length in the absolutely irresponsi
ble powers of the registration officers, the
right of any citizen to vote being completely
at the mercy of any villain who happened to
be a registration officer, while there was no
remedy for the grossest outrages. A fact too
public, that in many counties the officers acted
wholly in thu interest ot the radical candi
dates, tlie only consideration being ns to the
number of opposition votes lo be stricken oil
to secure a majority. In one case as many
as live hundred voters were disfranchised
upon secret affidavits. The Senator from
New York. fOonkling] at the last session.
denounced the election frauds in New 1 ork
city, but that Senator would agree that the
abomination was as great in stealing legal
votes out of the ballot-box under cover of the
law in Missouri ns in stuffing illegal votes
into the ballot box, as in New York and
Philadelphia. In this connection he charac
terized as unqualifiedly false the newspaper
reports .that the Missouri “bolt” hg|) any
thing to do with the revenue reform conspir
ing or originating in Washington. Person
ally, his convictions led him to oppose the
protective system. Had the tarill' question
been issued in Missouri, he thought that the
majority against the question would have
been nearer 100,000 than 42,000. I lie ques
tion was discussed, hut overshadowing the
issue. He denied the allegation that the
question might have been settled by referring
it to the legislature of lb71; besides, such a
course would iiavc involved a defeat of the
constitutional amendment then before the
people, and, while failing to preserve the par
ty unity, would have transferred the struggle
to the legislative districts. He then read,
from a speech delivered by his colleague at a
serenade, comments upon remarks attributed
to himself, that he “looked forward to the
time when new party ties would be formed."
The conclusion of his colleague was that he
[Schurz] designed taking the whole German
element over lo the democratic party to con
trol the next presidential election, and lie,
then, to be the great power behind the demo
cratic throne. This Schurz indicated as a
morbid hallucination, as also his colleague's
onslaught upon the Germans. But ho re
gretted that while his colleague's insinuations
had no effect upon the people of Missouri,
they seemed to have had a strong influence
upon the mind of the President.
Hs was convinced that the letter of the Presi
dent to the collector of internal revenue at St.
Louis, condemnatory of the new movement
and tlie suspension of a number of federal
officers, mostly Germans, were instigated by
Ilia colleague, while the interference of the
President in the Slate elections, by means of
patronage, had long been considered a mat
ter of most questionable property and bad
policy under any circumstances. In the pres
ent case, he who persuaded the President to
interfere proved the most dangerous adviser.
He then criticised the alleged misrepresenta
tions of his colleague to the President that
the movement as designed was upon the ad
ministration. Were he the enemy of the ad
ministration he would not deplore the fact
that the President lent an ear to such insinua
tions. To refute the charge against himself
of factious opposition he referred to his
speeches of former years to show that he had
uniformly held that General Grant in the
Presidential chair would have the most invit
ing opportunity to restore the long lost cordi
ality of sentiment among the American peo
ple and bring on a new era of good feeling.
He would have more facilities than any pre
ceding administration, ana enect a inorougii
reform of the civil service and the purifica
tion of our whole political machinery. To
the administration he still gave his cordial
support in the direction thus indicated. His
friends, in their movement, had expected the
President's sympathy, and the appearance of
the St. Louis letter was to them a painful
surprise. In these great words, “Let us have
peace,” Grant had stood before the country
not as a creature of politicians, but as the
very exponent of a moderate and conciliatory
policy. If, finally, the Missouri elections
became a defeat of the administration, the
President must look to himself and his ad
visers for the responsibility. The President's
own principles achieved a victory over his
patronage. Had he only maintained a friend
ly neutrality the success of the B. Gratz
Brown movement would have passed for a
triumph of the President’s principles, gain
ing him thousands of friends where now lie
has lost thousands. It may not he a fault but
an advantage to the President. He had no
time for acquiring an extensive political ex
perience. But the advisers who pretended to
be his friends ought to have foretold the re
sult of-his interference, and of his following
the example of Presidents Pierce, Buchanan
and Johnson. Passing from the perusal of
various letters, showing that the federal pat
ronage in Missouri hail been prostituted in
giving color to attempts by federal officers to
levy black mail for party purposes. Mr. Sehurz
referred to the President’s avowal in favor of
the civil service reform. The attempt at civil
service reform in Missouri was in the true
Andrew Johnson style, to organize a bread
and butter brigade, and if this was a fair in
dication of the President’s meaning of reform
not much value was to he placed in the Pres
idential promise. lie had the result of the
President’s following the advice of political
managers. Lord save the administration and
the party, and the same spirit henceforward
to govern their course. After asserting his
allegiance to be due to republican principles
rather than party discipline, he concluded
with some speculations upon the probable for
mation of a new party, the popular belief
that the mission ot the republican party had
ended, and remarked that the recent demo
cratic changes of position demonstrated that
a new phase of development was upon us.
The exhaustion of old issues, and the grow
ing dissatisfaction and insubordination within
the grijat parties, were confirmatory eviden
ces; while, on the other hand, the question
of revenue reform, civil service reform, &c.,
were yet ephemeral issues. Upon the whole,
while the prospect of a new party might at
present appear ohseure, it would come with
the necessity of a national crisis. He closed
with an expression of hi3 confidence in the
ability of the republican parly to become that
new party, claiming for it the possession of
elements’of a healthy regeneration.
Christmas Sale.
rivjlE LADIES OF ST. MARK’S CIIl'UCII "ill
X hold their Annual Sale of
Fancy Articles !
-ON
Tuesday Evening, Dee. 2011).
AT WEEKS* HALL.
Refreshment*, with n Turkey .Slipper, wil I <*
served at wreu o’clock.
AdmUisioxi 13 pt«.
fiecl7-t:tt __
KTBW
Millinery and Fancy Gccd
Misses SAGER & WHITE
HAVE .H'ST RECEIVED A LARGE STOCK OF
nSmlrrJfHlllHrrg If Faury
Consisting of
Freneli Huts and Flowers,
ROMAN SASH ES, RIBBONS&TIHS,
REAL LACES,
And FEATHERS of all deaariptiona.
Corner Bridge and M uter Streets.
octitMtr
HOLIDAY
GOODS!
-AT
PIERCE’S
BOOKSTORE.
(toclfrtiw
\nv and Select Stock
at E. ROWSE’S. t&wtf
STITC H I N C
of all kinds done cm the
Davis Sewing Machine,
-at the store of —-~
B. KinitUX, _-_WilU'i- M.
Do, Mi, Sol, Do.
MR. G. W LANCASTER ill open a rl-is$ In
this city on SATEKDAY EVENING, Dee. 21.
ltiTO. lor t e purpose of teaching a thorough course ,
of the elements of Vocal Muse; and lie will also
give particular attention to the cultivation of the
voice.
Asa Teacher of Vocal Music. Mr. Lancaster has
no fcuperior in our State. Tickets for I he com>e
LADIES, • *1.50.
GENTLEMEN, - • 2.00.
_ dec!4-f2w_
x s ; w (» o o o n !
CIiAPP cfc NOXITII
arc now receiving from New York and Boston a
large assortment of Staple and
FANCY GOODS AND STATIONERY !
suitable for the Holidays.
155 Water street, - - Augusta.
Sign of the “Big Ledger.”_deea-f.dw
itifh Hiul Kxieiwivc Work
silver noons
at 124 Water St. t&tf
Canned Fruits, Raisins, Currants, Citron,
,tc., for |alc at the
Market_Square_Grocerj Store.
Chandler & Boardman,
at the Market Square Grocery Store, have the K
F. V. Smoking Tobacco, the Indian Weed ami the
Flounder Tobacco. Best in the Market.
decKMtawlni
New Jewell^ Establishment !
S. W. FAIRFIELD,
HAVING taken the North part of the Store Oc
cupied by S. P. PLUMMER, Opposite the
POST-OFFICE, AUGUSTA, ME.,
Will keep constantly on hand aud for sale, a good
assortment of
WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY,
. — AND—
FANCY GOODS.
ALSO, A FULL STOCK OF
Spectacles Ac Eye Glasses.
Wat die • tfc Clocks i leans# tl and Repaired
in a Thorough Manner and at Reasonable Rates.
All kinds of Jewelry neatly Repaired.
S. IV. F. would respectfully call the attention o
citizens of Augusta and adjoining towns to his NEW
STOCK OF GOODS; and he l'eels confident that by
strict attention to business aud honorable dealing
with all, lie will merit and receive a fair share of the
patronage of the public.
Any particular article in the Watch, Clock or
Jewelry line, obtained at short notice.
S. W. FAIRFIELD.
Augusta, Oct. 28, 1870. i-In
Look ! Look’! Look !
-A NEW-i,.L i
MEAT MARKET
HAS been opened nearlv opposite PARROTT
it BRADBURY'S, where
Messrs. Small & Butler,
the Proprietors, are prepared to furnish those who
may favor them with a call, with anything in their
line, at
Prices Which Will Suit ! !
(dive them a Call.
nov24-*3t_
Cheese! Cheese!
Another IS'lee l.ol of
Livermore Cheese,
JUST RECEIVED AT
Richards & Hall’s,
No. 3 GRANITE IIALL RLOCK.
Nov. H, 1870._Wf
A LARGE STOCK OF
SILVER NAPKIN RINGS
at ROYVSE'S. wtf
The Red Sign, opposite the P. 0.,
IS WHERE
J. B. DYER’S
NEW STOCK OF
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS
CAS BE FOUND,
Aud which lie will sell at the Very Lowest
Bottom Prices FOR CASH.
He keeps constantly on hand,
Choice Porto Eico Molasses.
New Y ork Syrup, Flour, Pork, Lard (In tierce or
caddie), Dry Fish, Mackerel, I’lckcla iu
Jars or by the gallon.
Apples by the Darrel.
Kerosene Oil, Candles, Soaps, Table Salt,
Granulated and Extra C. Sugars,
Muscatel and Layer Raisins, Canned Fruit, Teas,
Coffees, Spices, Rice, Dried Currants,
Citron, Hereford's Self-raising Bread Powders,
STONE WARE.
And all other articles generally kept in a Grocery
store.
Remember, the place to buy your Gro
ceries cheap is Rt
J. B. DYER’S, No. 115,
Augusta, Nov. 1,1*70. Opposite the Post Office,
novl-ftl
REAP THIS !
MERIT,
In order to be appreciated, must be known,—after
wards, it needs no praise. The same with the
BURDETT CELESTE 0R6ANS,
IIow are vou to know the merits of these organs ?
How are you lo liml out their superiority above
all others ?
Why, go and examine them at 33 Court street,
II os ton, where they are receiving the highest enco
miums from all who hear them, as superior and
pref&able to all other makes, without any excep
tion.
Pianos, and all kinds of Musical Merchan
dise at bowed Prices.
John C. Haynes & Co.,
No. SS COURT STRKF.T, • • BOSTON.
I lOly
Kennebec Trunk Factory.
Messrs. Hamilton & Turner,
i 135 Water Street, Augusta,
Having enlarged their THUNK FACTORY, are now
fully prepared to furnibh
Trunk«, I'•<*!< es, vtc.
to the public and travelling community generally at
Pricks which Defy Competition.
They also make to ORDER different btvles, consist* j
ing of SARATOGA, EUGENIE, &c.,
and in fact anything which the public, may want iu
the Trunk lint*.
They also keep constantly on hand a Feel Lise of
Ladies’ and Gents.’ Travelling and
Shopping Bags,
to which the public are invited to call and examine
before purchasing elsewhere.
Headquarters for Blankets & Robes
At Wholesale and Retail, at Very Low Prices.
HAMILTON & TURNER.
lAr> Water Street, Augusta, Me. novl.Vtf
James W. Bradbury, Jr.,
U. S. COMMISSIONER,
Office with Bradbury & Bradbury,
IVATKK STIIEET, - - AIHil STA
_ 20U_
v New Cake Baskets
of elegant designs, nt E. ROWSE’S, 124
Water St. wtf
FIRST MORTGAGE
OF THE
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KAIL ROAD COMPANY,
, PAYABLE IN GOLD,
With Interest at (8) Eight Per Cent, also Payable
in Gold.
Coupons or Registered.
These First C lass Bonds are now for sale by the
Company through the undersigned, and are eonll
dently recommended as combining absolute safety
and a large Income.
Almost the entire line is completed and in suc
cessful operation. Only Twenty Miles of Track to
lay at the Western Terminus, and that being rapid
lv’laid.
The present traffic of the Road is ample guaran
tee for the Reliability of these Securities.
The Road runs West from ST. JOSEPH, and
forms a through East and West route.
Mortgage per mile $13,500 covering Franchise
and all property.
LENGTH OF ROAD 111 MILES.
Total isaue of Bouda $1,500,000.
PRICE 07 1-2 and accrued interest in currency.
Maps and Pamphlets furnished on application.
Expressage for account of purchasers free of
charge.
W. P. rOXVERNE & CO.,
H4 Pine St., New York.
TAAAKH & CO.,
^ 49 Woll St., New York.
4W40
J. W. TOWARD, M. Dh%
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office on Winthrop Street,
has of State Street.—Opposite Court House.
$5*2Awtf
DR. SCJTEXCK ADVISES COXS VMR TIVES
TO GO TO FLORIDA IX WINTER.
IIayiso for the last thirty-five year* devoted my whole
time and attention to the study of lung disease* and con
sumption, I feel that I understand fully the coarse that
ought to be pursued to restore a tolerably bad case of
diseased lung* to healthy soundness. Tho first and most
important step is. for the patient to avoid taking cold;
and the best of all places on this continent for this pur
pose, in winter, is Florida, well down in the State, where
the temperature is regular, and not subject to such varia
tions as in more northern latitudes. Palatka is a point
I can recommend. A good hotel is kept there by Peter
man. Last winter I saw several person* there whose
lungs had been badlv diseased, but who, under the heal
ing Influence of the climate and my medicines, were get
ting welL
One hundred miles farther down the river Is a point
which I would prefer to Palatka, as the temperaturo is
more even and the air dry and bracing. Mellonville and
Enterprise are located there. I should give a decided
preference to Mellonville: it is two miles from river or
lake, and it seems almost impossible to take cold there.
The tables in Florida might be better, and patients com
plain at times; but that is a good sign, as it Indicates a
return of appetite : and, when this is the case, they gen
erally Increase in fleah, and then the lungs must heal.
Jacksonville, llibemia. Green Cove, and many other
placet in various parts of Florida can be safely recom
mended to consumptives in winter. My reasons for say
ing so are, that patients are less liable to take cold there
than where there Is a less even temperature; and it is
not necessary to say, that, where a consumptive person
exposes himself to frequent colds, he is certain to die
shortly: therefore my advice is. go well down into the
State, out of the reach of prevailing east winds aud fogs.
Jacksonville, or almost any other of the localities I have
named, w ill benefit those who are troubled with a torpid
liver, a disordered stomach, deranged bowels, sore throat,
or cough; but, for those whose lungs are diseased, a more
southern point is earnestly recommended.
For fifteen year* prior to 1W». 1 was professionally In
New York, Poston, lialtimorc, and Philadelphia e.ery
week, where I saw and examined on an average five
hundred patients a week. A practice so extensive, em
bracing every possible phase of lung disease, has enabled
me to understand the disease fully; and hence my caution
in regard to taking cold. A person may take vast quanti
ties of " Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup, Seaweed Tonic, and
Mandrake Pills." and yet die If he does not avoid taking
cold.
In Florida, nearly everybody is using Schenck’s Man
drake Pills; for the climate is more likely to produce
bilious habits than more northern latitudes. It is a well
established fact, that natives of Florida rarely die of con
sumption, especially those of the southern part. On the
other hand, in New England, one-third at least of the
population die of this terrible disease. In the Middle
states, it does not prevail so largely; still there are many
thousands of cases there. What a vast percentage ot*
life would be saved if consumptives were as easily alarm
ed in regard to taking fresh cold* as they are about scar
let fever, small-pox, Ac.! but they are not: they tako
w hat they term a little cold, which they are credulous
enough to believe will w ear off In a few days. They pay
no attention to it; and hence it lays the foundation for
another and another still, until the lungs are diseased be
yond all hope of cure. . .
My advice to persona whoso lnngs are affected, even
slightly, la to lay in a stock of Kcbenck'a Pulmonic 8yrup,
Kchenck's Seaw eed Tonic, and Sch^tck’aMsndraksPilM,
and go to Florida. I recommend these particular medi
cines, because I am thoroughly acquainted with their
action. I know, that, wheri they are used in strict ac
cordance with my directions, they will do tho work that
is required. Tills accomplished, nature will do the rest.
The physician who prescribes for cold, cough, or night
sweats 'and then advises the patient to walk or ride out
every day, will be sure to have a corpse on his hands
before long. ._.
Mv plan is, to give my three-medicine* in accordance
with the printed directions, except in some cases w here
a freer use of the Mandrake Pills Is necessary. My object
is, to give tone to the stomach, — to get up a good appe
tite. It is always a good sign when a patient begins to
grow hungry: l have hopes of such. With a relish for
food and the gratification of that relish, comes good
blood, and with it more flesh, which is closely followed
by a healing of the lungs, —then the cough loosens and
abates, the creeping chills and clammy night sweats no
longer prostrate aud annoy, aud the patient getsweif,
provided lie avoids taking cold.
Now, there are many consumptives who have not tho
means to go to Florida. The question may be asked, Is
there no hope for such ? Certainly there is. My advlco
to such is, and ever has been, tc stay In a warm room
during the winter, with a temperature of about seventy
degrees, which should bo kept regularly at that point by
means of a thermometer. Let such a patient take hi*
exercise within the limit* of tho room by walking up and
clown as much as his streugth will permit, in order to
keep up a healthy circulation of the blood. I have cured
thuuaaml, by tbi. .y.trai. and can do »o again. Cou
aumptioniaaa easily cured aa any oUier d£en«c if i la
taken in time, and Iho proper kind of treatment la pur
kued. 'J ho fact .tanda undi.puted on record, that
Schenrk'k I iinonic Svrup, Mandrake Mil., and Sea
weed Tonic have cured very many of w hat seemed to bo
lioneleaa caaea of coiiaumpthm. Go where you will, you
wifi bo almost certain to Bnd koine poor consumptive
who has boon rescued from the very Jaws of death by their
“sir fltr as tha Mandrake Pills are -oncemed. everybody
should keep a supply of them on h id. they act on tho
liver better than calomel, and leave none of Its hurtful
effects behind. In faot, they are excellent In all cam
where a purgative medicine is required. If you have
nartakea too freely ol fruit, and diarrhoea enauea. adoso
If the Mandrakes wllleure you. If you are subject to
kick headache, take a dose of the Mandrakes, amt they
will relieve you In two houre. if you would obviate tho
eifectof a change of water, or the too free indulgence in
fruit, tako one of the Mandrakes every night, and you
may then drink water, and eat water melons, pears,
pies, plums, peaches, or com, without the risk ot being
inade tick by them. 'I hey will protec t those who live Us
damp situations against chills and fevers, Iry them.
They are perfectly harmless. They can do you good only.
1 have abandoned my professional visits to boston anil
New York, but continue to see patients at my office. No.
15 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia, eveiw thiturday.
from 0, A.M., to3, p.m. Those who wish a thorough ex
amination with the Kceplrometer will be charged five
dollars. The BospkromeUr declares the exact condition
of tho lungs; aud patients can readily learn whetbec
they arc curable or not But I desire it distinctly un
derstood, that the value of my medicine* depends entire
ly upon tlielr being taken strictly according to direction*.
In conclusion, I will say, that when persons take my
medicines, and their systems are brought Into,*JMhjthy
condition thereby, they arc not so liable to take cold,
yet no one with diseased lungs can boar a sudden chango
of atmosphero without the liability of greater or less irrt*
tation of the bronchial tubes.
Full directions iq all langungea accompany my medi
cines, so explicit end clear that anyone can use them
without consulting roe, and can bo bought from any
d****1*1* J. II. Scbknck, M.D.,
No. 15 North Sixth Street, l'hlladelphla,
GEORGE C. GOODWIN ft Co., Boston, Agents.
EDWARD ROWSE,
-— DEALER IN
Fine Jewelry,
SILVER WARE and SPECTACLES,
124 Water Street,
AUGUSTA : : Maine.
HOLIDAY GOODS ! JUST RECEIVED !
decl3-!4wtf
HOLIDAY GOODS !
HOLIDAY GOODS !
RICH AID RARE !
CHRISTMAS
-AND
NEW YEAR’S GIFTS I
IN GREAT VARIETY,
-AT
FRANK KINSMAN’S
Apothecary Store.
Uecl6*t&wti
DAVID CARGILL’S
GENERAL
Insurance Agency,
Granite Block, south siie Market Sa
AUGUSTA, ME.
CAPITAL REPRESENTED,
Over $28,000,000.00 !
Itna Fire Insurance Coipy,
Hartford Conn.,
Chattered 1819. Charter Perpetual. Losses paid
in 51 years, $27.<5«n.QOO.OO.
Assets. July 1, 1*70, *S,744,37S.Oe.
Htna Life Insurance Comp’v
Hartford, Conn.,
Assets, January 1, 1870, over $11,000,000.00.
It hna over 45,000 members,
AND
An Annual Income of over Six
Millions of Dollars !
Traveler’s Insurance Comp’y,
Hartford, Conn.,I
Life und Accident.
CASH ASSETS $1,457,719.64, Jan. 1, 1870.
FHAKrHJjXBr
Fire Insurance Company,
■Philadelphia,
Assets. January 1, 1870, $2,825,783.68.
City Fire Insuranoe Co.,
HARTFORD, ( ONW
Roger Williams Ins. Company,
PROVIDENCE, K. I.
Merchants’ Insurance lomp’y,
PROVIDENCE, R. I.
Atlantic Fire Insurance Co’y.,
BROOKLYN. N. Y.
Eastern Insurance Company,
BANGOR, M.
Marine RlsKs
Effected on reasonable terms in Reliable
Companies.
soptlO-ttf
' J. S. DUDLEY,
Dealer in all kinds ol
SEWING MACHINES
All kinds of Si wing Maemnes neatly repaired an
warranted to sew as well as tiro day
they were made.
MACHINES TO LET !
By the Month or Week.
,J. 8. DlTDIiEY,
Water St., A U GUST A, MAINE,
ttf.jnnell 1 Door south of Parrott A Bradbury’s.
NOTEJTHIS !
Holidays 1870-71
The Richest Goods
e ver brought to this Market, in the line of
Toilet, Fancy, Ornamental
nntl useful Articles. Va
ses. Statuary, die.,
all imported direct or purchased from the Mann
fact u re rs, are offered for
Very Low Prices !
-AT
Partridge’s Drug Store,
j [cor. Market Square, under Granite Hall.]
Ladies and Gentlemen who w ish to remember a
friend with an acceptable gift, can And it in my
Store, with prices lower thau New York or Boston.
(has. K. Partridge.
ducl4-tAwtf
FOR SALE!
i fPHE undersigned, the surviving Partner, ol the
X Arm ol J. HEDGE Jfc CO., offers for sale the en
tire
STOCK OF GROCERIES !
now in store at Williams’ Block. Also
STORE FURNITURE,
:-AND
FIXTURES,
offering a rare rhanoe to any one dcelrou* of going
into tlie busineen. The UomU are rnoetly
MAV ASD FRESH !
and of FIRST QUALITY, with a
FINE EVN of BUSINESS.
-ALSO THE
TWO STOBT HOUSE
on Orchard Street now occupied by me, together
with the Furniture.
Asa W. Hedge.
0. C. WHITEHOUSE ft CO.,
-DEALERS IN
Foreign and Domestic
DRY GOODS!
And Carpetings,
NO. 173 WATER STREET,
AUGUSTA, Me.
O. C. Whitkhousk, Daniel Whitfhouitk
tmayM tf
DELL SIMONDS*
Fashionable Hair Dressing Rooms
Opposite Parrott A Bradbury’s,
Water Street, : Avgusta, Me.
Shaving, Shampooing, llair-Dressing, Cutting, Col
oring, Ac., in ilie most approved style of the art
Partloular attention paid to cutting and curling J-a.
dies’ aud Children’s hair. All kinds of Hair Work
made to order In the latest style. Ijan70-ly
RICHMOND
Hanging Dome Furnace!
Williamson ft Greenwood’s.
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