Newspaper Page Text
THE DAILY PRESS. rjBTLAJTD, MAI MM, — — . , - -— ** Friday Morning, Jan. 13, 1865. The circulation of the Dally Press i* larger than any other Daily paper in the State,**® d ruble that of any other in Pot .land. Times—>8,00 per year <» advance. BP" Reading Matter eu *'* Plge»< The Secretary of the Treasury. The Senatorial question has keen happily disposed of, and we have no farther occasion to say more upon that subject. It is a just ground of mutual gratulation that the friends of the candidates, in the seal which they dis played to secure their ends, carried into the discussion so little of objectionable personal ities, and seemed so generally disposed to speak of both candidates in terms worthy of the distinguished gentlemen whose names have been brought so prominently before the people of Maine. But for an unintentional act of injustice—at least we so regard and treat it—done to Mr. Fessenden in the Belfast Age, we woold stop here; but with no purpose to provoke a sin gle word of unpleasant reply, and no desire to cast censure upon any one, we make the fol lowing quotation, for the purpose of saying a word injustice to one of our nation’s noblest, truest, and most honorable men. The Age Bays: But it is said that Mr. Fessenden only ac cepted the office temporarily, and that he has constantly been expecting to go immediately back to the Senate. We should be very sorry to believe this to be true; we cannot believe that he could have beeu willing to do such Injustice to himself, aud the country. He could have but known that in holding a place of sneb vital importance under such a tenure, he would have been unable to do credit to him self, or service to the country. The idea that we have really do permanent Minister of Finance, that one man shall take the Treasury Department and run it for a few months, his eye all the time fixed on something else, and then leave some one else to run it awhile till he can find some place that would suit hin better, is certainly uuique. Mr. Fes senden when the position was offered him had his option to accept or refuse. He knew its difficulties and responsibilities. He either should never have accepted it, or he should, in justice to himself and to the people, have accepted it with the determination to do his best, and remain in the office as long as he could be of service to the country in that ca pacity. Here is a reflection upon Mr. Fessenden be cause he did not in accepting the portfolio of the Treasury, resolve to stop there, but con sidered his occupancy of that position tempo rary ; only “for a few months.” Can the Age Inform os how Mr. Fessenden or any other man could have taken a different view of the matter ? How could he look beyond the 4th of March next, when the Presidential term will close by limitation, and with It the term of every member of the Cabinet? When Mr. Fessenden accepted the keys of the Treasury, Mr. Lincoln himself was not re-elected. No living man knew who was to be President af ter the 4th ot March; and what right had any cabinet Minister to act upon any other pre sumption than that he would then give place to another? And after Mr. Lincoln was re-elected, Mr. Fessenden had no means of knowing that his services in the Treasury would be required Id the second term. We are not aware that the slightest hint was ever conveyed to his mind that he could remain in the cabinet even should such a retention be the leading desiie of his heart What right, then, we repeht, had he or has he now, to contemplate “running” the Treasury Department longer than “a few months?’* How, as a modest gentlemaD, could he for a moment act upon any other pre sumption than that, after the 4th of March, he would be at full liberty—should his friends desire it—to resume his old place in the Sen ate ? and was there any sin in an honorable ambition to do so? Says the Age, “Mr. Fessenden, when the position was offered him, had his option to accept or refuse.” In one sense this is true; in another it is not only untrue, but cruelly false. Legally he was at liberty to refuse wheD the position was offered him; morally and patriotically he could not refuse; there was a necessity laid upon him that he could not, in fidelity to the nation, escape. We know whereof we speak, for on this point we have Mr. Fessenden’s own personal statement, made when he had no possible mo tive for misrepresentation, were he not as he is, morally incapable of such an act. Mr. Chase had suddenly resigned. It was a criti cal moment in our financial affairs. Gov. Tod was offered the place, and, fortunately for the nation, it is generally believed, declined. Mr. Fessenden was the next man selected. Before he knew a word of what was going on; with out an intimation of the President’s purpose, bis name was sent into the Senate while he was not in his seat, and without the usual ref erence to a committee, the Senate went into Executive session, aDd iu less than ten min utes the confirmation was unanimously made. Mr. Fessenden was Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, presumed to be as well posted in relation to oar national finances, as any man in the country. His impulse was per emptorily to decline, but his friends gathered aboat him, Senators and Representatives ap pealed to him, business men from all parts ot the country flooded him with dispatches, com mittees waited upon him, all urging him, in the name of an lmperrilled national credit, not to act rashly, but to accept the trust. It was urged that for him to decline, no matter for what personal reason, the act would be in terpret* unfavorably for the national faith.— It would be said that a man well-informed of the condition of the national treasury, and whose position had given him the best means of information, looked upon the whole thing as involved In hopeless coufusion and bank ruptcy, and bis declining would serve to pre cipitate & financial crisis which every body was anxious to avert. For these reasons Mr. Fessenden felt compelled to sacrifice all per sonal choice, and to yield to a necessity that be had no moral right to decline; and for this the nation owes him a debt of gratitude which they have not been slow to acknowledge. When he took Uie Treasury portfolio he did not feel that his physical energies were ad equate to the burdens impoee(] upon them, and he feared that ho would not be able to bear up louger than would suffice to enable the President to look around and seenre a proper person to succeed him; one in whom the business men of the nation could confide. Hence he assured the President that his early withdrawal, long before the Presidential term would expire, must not be regarded as a dis courtesy. But he never looked beyond the 4th of March, to a seat In the Cabinet, not on ly because his tastes do not lead him in that direction, not only because he does not re gard his health as equal to the unremitting tax upon his physical forces, but for the addi tional and all-sufficient reason that lie had no Tight to do to. The Paesident will make up his new Cabinet as to himself shall seem best, and no man who h gt to occupy a seat in that cabinet, would be guilty of the very great breach of propriety that*woulif be committed by any one who should attempt to force him self upon the Executive attei/tpp, or to ar range his private matters for a foui tears’ res idence at the national Capital, aa a O^iuet Minister, when his invitation to do so is ”w,|y for faw months.” Relief qP Savanbtah.—The amount sub scribed iu Boston, up to oue o’clock yester day, in aid oi the people of Savannah, was about $25,000. The steamer Greyhound, which will sail from that port for Savannah to-morrow, will take out a large quantity of supplies. "4 OtT&lrr offl®et” Bltokwood, An amusing instance of the way ta which public eenti'n0nt on American affair* fe manu factured m England, may be found in an ar ticle w Blackwood for December, entitled Visit to the Cities and Camps of the Con federate States, i863-’64,” by a Cavalry Of ficer. The writer claims to have spent a year in the C. S. A., and to have enjoyed unusual facilities for observing the character and habits of the people, the spirit by which they are animated In the present struggle, and the working of their institutions. For his enjoy ment of these advantages we must, of course, take his word, but he certainly has not profited by them very greatly. Any one less capable of forming an intelligent opinion for himself 4 would be bard to find. His boundless con ceit and his equally boundless credulity made him a ready prize to those who had their own reasons for deceiving him, and they would seem to have flattered him Into such a com fortable estimate of himself and them, that he was ready to swallow anything they chose to tell. According to him ail Confederate of ficers are perfect gentlemen, brave, courteous and humane,—ail the common people of the south animated by an unconquerable love of liberty and hatred of the “atrocious tyranny of the Yankees.” As for slavery, it is a mild, patriarchal institution, the especial delight of the negro, who is invariably too much attached to his “massa” to leave him, except upon compulsion, and whose sunny existence is dis turbed by no lear except that of being “kid napped” by the Yankees! Hear what he says: “If any one in the South wished to make sure of getting into trouble, he need only abuse or Ill-treat a negro; and though the ‘boy’ might be submissive, he would soon have every white man in the neighborhood down upon him, and perhaps a revolver or two emptied Into his body!” Take another specimen. Speaking of the “false and malicious report” circulated in the north, of the ill-treatment of Federal prisoners in the hands of the chivalry, he says that the Libby Prison was kept scrupulously clean and well ventilated, that there was abundance of wholesome food, and that over forty negro servants were kept expressly to wait upon the officers confined there. To shoot them per haps when they looked out at the window.— “At Belle Isle iu the James river, there were about 8000 prisloners, living lu teuts In a regu lar confinement, wirh plenty of room for ex ercise, any amount of water, bathing allowed in the season, and better rations than the Con federate soldiers get In the field, though nom inally the same. They had been oa Belle Isle six months when I went there, and I counted 76 graves on the island. (Where were the rest?) As many have died in one day at Fort Delaware—so Capt. Bats Lieux, the commandant of Belle Isle, Informed me.” The italics are ours. Of the Virginia far mers, he says: “They are all kind, hospitable, good fellows, a little depressed by the bad times, and at be ing obliged to keep their political sentiments to themselves. They run no small risk in har boring us too. If found out, it would go hard with their persons and property. Only a few days ago the family of a gentleman of large property in Maryland entertained two rela tives, southern soldiers, at their house during the absence oi the owners. They were found oat; the gentleman, who knew nothing of the matter, was sent to Fort Warren; his property was confiscated, and the ladies of the family were sent south wlthont being allowed to take anything ’with thorn. They subsequently earned their living by needle word at Gordons ville.” Really, one cannot help wishing that a little of this kind of rigor actually had been prac ticed towards those border state traitors, male and female, whom the excessive leniency of the government has left free to work such in calculable mischief with perfect Impunity.— We have space for but one more choice ex tract. The writer is describing his visit to Richmond. “I called on Mr. Beniamin,.the Secretary of State, and was fortunate la find ing hijn at home and alone. We talked about the war, and the foreign prospects of the Con federacy, atrocities which the Yankees seem to delight iu committing wherever they have a chance. “ ‘ If they had behaved differently,’ Mr. Ben jiinin remarked: *11' they had come against us observing discipline, protecting women and children, respecting private property, and pro claiming as their only object the putting down of armed resistance to the Federal govern ment, we should perhaps have fouud It more difficult to prevail against them. But they could not help showing their cruelty and rapacity; they could not dissemble their true uature wh ch is the real cause of this war.— If they had been capable of acting otherwise they would not have been Yankees, aud we should never have quarreled with them.’ ” Perhaps this is enough. Ono can readily understand how much of this kind of stuff should find its way into the columns of the London Morning Herald, or of the Liverpool Courier, bat that a Magazine like Blackwood’s, with a character to sustain, should offer to its readers five aud twenty pages of matter so palpably composed of equal parts of falsehood and fatuity, is almost surprising. In the pres ent encouraging aspect of affairs we can well afford to smile at these efforts to blacken and Injure the cause it has cost us so much to de fend, bat the time has been when they were not wholly without their baleful effect. The fact that we have reached a point where such shafts have no longer power to harm us, is a good test of progress. Glimpses of the OapitoL , Augusta, Jan. 12.1866. The Legislature yesterday completed the work so well Initiated a few days since, and elected Hon. Wm. P. Fessenden, United States Senator for six years from the 4th of March next. At 12 o’clock the Committee to receive the votes took their places iu front of the Speaker’s desk. The members were then called upon, in alphabetical order, and coming forward,deposited their ballots. One hundred and thirty-nine members we^e present. Great order and dignity characterized the proceed ings. When the ballot had proceeded through about half the alphabet, a message from the Senate announced that that body on its part elected Mr. Fessenden. The balloting proceed ed, and when concluded, the Committee count ed the votes on the Clerk’s desk, in the pres ence of the House. Mr. Fessenden had 11 votes, and William P. Haines had 23. The Speaker then, with great emphasis, and evi dently with glowing satisfaction, declared Mr. . Fessenden elected on the part of the House. The Senate had already completed their' Put of the good work—casting the entire vote °f the members present lor Mr. Fessenden.— There were twenty-seven of them in their seats. The absentees were, Messrs. Jewett of York, who ha* not yet appeared on account of sickness; Warren, of Hancock, Barker of Pen obscot, aud Hale ot Piscataquis, who are un voidably away. Hon. jNathan a. Kartell was then el ected to flU the vacancy in the U- S. Senate till the 4th of March next. The Governor yesterday nominated Augus tus C. Bobbins and Francis B. Swau,f0i Bank Commissioners; Gilman Turner, of Aug,18ta Superintendent of Public Buildings; Wta. e' Morris, of Portland, Recorder of Police Court Jeremiah Maxwell, of Bangor, Keeper ol State Arsenal. These nominations most remain on the books one week, before being acted on. The new Board of Executive Council are all present, but Mr. Pierce of the 1st District, wim» js detained by sickness. The Board is or ganize) as follows: Charles Holden, Chairman. As the public are interested In the composition of the committees, I give them: Lyman^arran^**'’Me*8r*. ®ol<*eD’ F'4rwe^» Account*.—Holden, Starks, Pierce. StaU Aid.—Buggies, Pierce, Starks. BtaU PrUon.-7*r"*n, Stub, Prim*. Krrn School—Pierce, Holden, Lyman. Hal for the Insane.—Stub, Prince, Ruzgle9. Deaf, Dumb and Blind*— Pierce, Prince; Holden. Public Buildings.—Prince, Stark?, Far well. Indian Affairs.—Lyman, Farwell, Haggles. Normal Schools.—Haggles, Holden, Ly man. On Pay Boll.—Lyman, Pierce, Prince.. I notice among the Joint Standing Commit tees of the two Houses, a new one, which I am quite sure I hare never seen before; and that is, s Committee on “Railroads, Ways and Bridges.” There are a number of men in each, branch, that I know full well, who are emi nently calculated to act as Chairman of this waggish committee. The cards of Invitation are out for s levee at Gov. Cody’s, this evening. A gay time is anticipated. The Governor always makes the social gatherings at his residence, by his genial and hearty manners, highly interesting, and I have no doubt he will have a lull house. A meeting was held last evening, in the Hall of the House, of the Union members of the Legislature, to eonsider the best means to effect a short session. The attendance was full and the interest very general. The de bate was spicy, and was continued for an hour and a half with unabated interest. The con clusion was quite unanimous that the legisla tive work conld be done, and well done, in seven weeks. There were various opinions advanced, all tending to the same end. I have not room to give you a sketch of the de bate in this letter, but will endeavor to give you, to-morrow, a synopsis of the views of the speakers. Peiaam. “The Banks and the Currency." Mr. Editor: I have read with a good deal of interest the commnnicaiion in your issue of Tuesday on the Banks and the Currency. The article has some good points, but the writer is evidently ignorant of the subject of which he talks so glibly, and from his manner of treating the question, I should judge he was educated for the Law in some country store, where be learned book-keeping by sin gle entry,—hence his erudition. If your correspondent had called on any of the State Banks he could have learned jhe reason why the circulation is so high* He would have found that a large part of the in crease has been to assist the Government— State and National. If the State Banks had refused to pay out their bills the last year, the bounties to the soldiers could not have been paid. They came forward and furnished the bills much against their will, and then paid the Government tax on their circulation, largely increased to aid the Government, and this at a time when the money could not be used to any advantage. ■The Government Pay Masters came hero and to Augusta with greenbacks of the de nomination of $500 and $1,000, and the State Banks were obliged to change them or they would have been worthless for paying the soldiers. Tour correspondent could also have been informed of the large amount of money it takes to do the ordinary business of the State. He would have learned that to buy 10,000 barrels of flour or 100 boxes of sugar, it takes more than twice the money it did be fore the war. If there had been no increase of the circulation where would the money have come from to do the business ? for we have no increase of Bank capital. Our business men must per force do a good deal of business for their family expanses, and their taxes—National, State and Municipal are nearly quadrupled, and how are they to be paid it their facilities of trade are to be cut off? All this and more could your correspon dent have learned if he had asked any of the Banks; and more, he would have learned that they have been foremost in supporting the Government, and while he and his like, held back, fearing to take the Government loans, the State Banks came boldly forward, subscribed largely for the National Bonds, thereby endorsing them, and now he advises the Legislature not to extend the law allow ing the suspension of specie payment to the Banks, but would, Jacobin-like, hound on the bill-holders to sue the Banks, collect the penalty, and destroy the only means that thousands in this State have to subsist on. And then be sneeringly says that it is the large Bank stockholders that are crying out against the Government circulation. Why, Mr. Editor, we have no large stockholders in this State. Our $600,000 Banks have from 450 to 600 stockholders each, and the smaller Banks even more in propoition. I am willing, as one of the largest stockholders, to give np to the General Government all the circulation of the country and have no Bank issues at all, either State or National. It would save the Government the interest on from $600,000,000 to $1,000,000,000. But your correspondent’s the Nailonl Banking system would prevent his going so far. I agree with your correspondent in what he says abont the National Banks’ re-issuing the bills used by them under the State charter.— fhis is where the redundancy of the cur rency in this State comes from, for they have not only filled the State of Maine with their old bills, but they have also filled this State and the West with their “lawful money,” and I honestly believe that the Government, through the Government Banks’ is doing more to cause a “redundancy” in the currency than the State Banks ever did, or ever will do. I agree with your correspondent that the Leg islature should make the re-issuing of bills of Banks which have surrendered their charters, a penal offence, and I say this as a Bank di rector, who will vote for his Bank to change into the Government system the moment the Legislature enacts a law so that it can be done in a lawful and honorable way. By the present State law, the Banks have two years to redeem their circulation. How long, Mr. Editor, can Bauks that surrendered their charters last winter, continue to reissue their old bills with safety to the community, when after next winter, they are not obliged to re deem them? I trust, Mr. Editor, that you will have no more such correspondents. Men who write to incite the community against the institu tions that are doing so much to sustain the Government, are, and should be, very small in number. Director. Vindication of “Down East” Seamen. —Capt. F. N. Mitchell of Machiasport, writes us from Boston; Jan. 10th, requesting us to correct a statement which has appeared in the papers prejudicial to the captains and crews of “down east’ vessels. He says it has been stated in the papers, that the captains and crews of five eastern vessels have been arrest ed and held to bail, in Newbnrgh, N. Y., for fraudently voting, having sworn in their votes, stating that they belonged In Newburgh, and voting the “copperhead” ticket. Capt. Mitchell says he is one of the eastern captains probably referred to, but the whole statement is a fabrication;that he neverswore in bis vote at Newburgh or any other place, nor did he say he belonged there, neither was he ever arrested in that or any other place for any such offense, as that alleged. We cheerfully give Capt. Mitchell the ben efit of a disclaimer in our columns, as we de sire to have the skirts of our Maine citizens clear of all such accusations; but we do not know why ho should send his disclaimer to u*K as no such statement as that to which he re fers has ever appeared in onr columns to our kuow]e(jge. Adj«jRNMBHt of the Legislature.— A.n order passed the House yesterday, fixing Tuesday the twenty-first day of February, at twelve noon, for gnai adjournment It is said the Senate will concur in the passage of the order. If so, aud the business is done up promptly, the members will be entitled to the thanks of their constituents, Xjlttfioua Affair at Baltimore—A Dead Body Found in a Travelling Trunk. The Baltimore Gazette of January 2d, says there was great excitement In that city by the delivery at a railroad depot of a trunk con taining the body of a white man. The trunk belonged to a Woman who arrived on the steamer Norfolk, fthe was in black and heav ily veiled. She and her trunk were driven to a boarding house. About eight o’clock in the evening she called a hack for the purpose of going to the depot. As she left the hack she paid the driver five dollars and requested him to wait a few moments. She did not return, and the hackman carried the trunk to bis house. The next morning his wife had sus picions about the trunk, which was opened and fonnd to contain a dead body, face down wards, and the legs doubled up under the stomach. After much excitement the woman appeared and claimed the trank. Her name was Mary Louisa Linder—a bad woman. She says the name of the deceased was John Freeborn, be longing to the New York cavalry, and had deserted and lived with her. To escape detec tion he chose this mode of travelling. A small hole was made in the trunk, and he got into it and was conveyed to the boat. In the night she rapped upon the trunk, and he said, “Qo away, I am all right.” When the trunk was brought to her room by the hackman she opened it and found the man dead. Now came the trial. She walked the streets and knew not what to do, bnt finally she concluded to reveal the facts and give herself up. She was turned over to the military authorities, but the poor soldier Is now free from all military power. The closing scene of this singular case came off at Norfolk before Judge Webster. This Mary Louisa Linder gave the following ac count of the affair at her trial. She was much affected and wept bitterly. She said John Freeborn was tired of the army and told me if I would convey him to Chicago he would give me four hundred dollars. To get the money he jumped the bounty and then we could both go to Canada and get married. He ordered me to buy a large trunk and he would get into it and you can do with it just as you do with your clothing. I did not like to do it, but he made me. The trunk is a large, handsome one, about twenty-five inches high, sixteen in ' ches broad and thirty-two inches long. Be neath one of the straps was a small hole through which he breathed by means of a pipestem. He had In the trunk a canteen of water, a towel and some chewing tobacco. When the trunk was carried into my room at Baltimore, I was so glad that I kicked it, saying, “Johnny, you are all right,” but there was no answer. The dead could not speak! When she opened the trunk she said she was “crazy in her head.” Such is the substance of this woman’s evidence. She was strongly im pressed with the belief that she would be hung.. But the man voluntarily went into the trunk and died, and her only crime was aiding and abetting deserters. Judge Webster, after having consulted with Geu. Shepiey upon the sentence, returned to the court room and sentenced her to a fine of five hundred dollars and two years’ imprison ment at hard labor. BY TELEGRAPH -TO THE EVENING PAPERS. ' t \| A Batch of Sensation Rumors. New Yoke, Jan. 12. The World’s Washington dispatch (poor au thority) Bays the Democratic politician who his gone on a peace mission with the approval of the President, is Gen. Singleton of Illinois. It is said that the rebel Congress adopted in a secret session the resolution to appoint peace commissioners, and they have been selected and sent to Gen. Grant’s headquarters. Messrs. Orr, of South Carolina, Gilman, of North Carolina, and Alexander H. Stevens, are of the commission. It is also said that Gen. Grant has tele graphed that Mr. Stevens has solicited a pass through his lines to visit Washington. It is known that Mr. Blair goes to Rich mond with the full knowledge and consent of President, and is clothed with all the authori ty requisite to open negotiations with Jeff, Davis with a view to restore peace, and the rebel authorities will feel assured of this when be shows his credentials. His Instructions are embraced in three propositions, viz.:— 1st. Amnesty to ail, no matter what they may have been since the war began. 2d. The Constitution as it is, and the Union as it was. The South to return to the Union with alt the rights and privileges which it held beiore any of the States seceeded. 3d. The total abolition of slavery. From this point the President will not re tract one iota. He does not expect an imme diate abolition, but he expects that measures will betaken to secure its extinction within a reasonable length of time. It is stated on what seems authority, that Jeff Davis is strongly luclined to peace mea sures, and willing to accept more liberal terms than was at first supposed he wonld be. Mr. Lincoln on the other hand is disposed to be as lenient as possible, but insists that the first pub lic action, on the part of the South, must be to lay down arms, and acknowledge the suprema cy of the Union. There Is no desire to humil iate the South: it is to bow down to the Un ion, not to the North. Under no cicumstances will any proposition be accepted which does not embrace, as a first step, the laying down of arms on the part of the South. As an instance of the wish of the administration to obtain peace, it is stated that Gen, Butler was re moved, not solely for his incompetence and misdemeanors, bat also as an evidence that our government is disposed to treat with the South on liberal terms, and is willing to remove any obstacle that may stand in the way of a perfect understanding with that section. It is report ed that ex-Governor Rives and ex Governor Orr, are now on their way to Washington on peace mission. [We give the above Instalment of « bosh ” for the gratification of those of morbid appe tite. We don’t regard it as worth so much as the white paper it defaces. The President would deserve universui execration if he would remove Butler, or any other man, merely to please Jeff. Davis and his traitorous confreres.] The Times’ special Washington dispatch says the rebel peace commission consists of Vice-President Stevens, J udge Whits of Geor gia, Messrs. Boyce and Orr of South Carolina, Leach and Gilmore ol North Carolina, Rivers ot Virginia, and Smith and Siugletou of Mis sissippi. Various Item*. .' The Richmond Whig of a late date lays, Mosby has arrived at his father’s residence. His wound is doing well, and he expects to re turn to duty soon. The Richmond Enquirer of Tuesday iiys a call is out for a convention of the Confederate States. The intention of the authors Is to rev olutionize the revolution, to depose IRvis, wipe out the Confederate Congress, appoint a dictator, and perhaps surrender to the enimy. The legislature of Ohio has passed a reiolu tion in favor of the Constitutional amendaent, abolishing slavery. It is proposed by prominent cl lzens of Ohio to take measures to present Gen. Sherman with a testimonial of $100,000 in United Slates stocks. From Mexico. New York, Jan. 12. Late advices from Mexico state that Maxi milian has issued a manifesto,directing the re vision by hla ministry of the titles and cliims under which ecclesiastical property has teen for some time held, thus in effect declaring that it is In th ■ province of the governmest to exercise super ior control over it. It appears that while in Rome he opened negotiations with the Pope on the subject, but to his (feat surprise finds that the nuncio who has jusl ar rived in Mexico is without instructions in the mutter. He therefore boldly adopts his own policy; and it is said to have been received with enthusiasm Latest from Savannah. ■ New Yobk, Jan. |2. Everything js quiet. One or two insurance companies of Savan nah are considering the prospept of establish ing a national bank for the issue of green backs. The cnstom house and post office were being cieansed and repaired preparatory to the «om mencement of business. Soldiers are not al lowed nnder any circumstances whatever to enter private residences. T4e negroes ape or derly and quiet, remaining with their owners, and performing their customary duties. IOHIGINAL JJTD SELECTED. STThe gold medal fbr Gen. Grant ordered by Congress, bag been received at Washington. «Srit is stated that Gen. Butler we* relieved t»J request of Gen. Grant. trAt Denver City, Colorado, 75c in gold will buy an apple, and $1 60 will buy a pound of poor butter. Eyit is a curious feet that exactly the same number of persons committed suicide in Massa chusetts in 1861 a& during the year 1862. tyfhere is said to be strong opposition in Prince Edward Island and in Nova Scotia to the confederation scheme. HP" An exchange Bays the most popular agri cultural fair is a fermer’s daughter. Who wouldn’t “attend” such a fair. £y “Waiter bring me some oorn,” said a boarder to S green Irfeh servant. “V#ey ?” said Paddy, leaning down to oatch the accent. “No, no—corn replied the guest. BP" Senator Gratz Brown of Missouri, hu written another letter in fevor of giving the right of suffrage t) the southern slaves, in con nection with their freedom. South American advices indicate that the republic of Uruguay will soon be entirely anni hilated by Brazil unless some strong foreign power interferes. Sf As soon as Gov. Andrew heard of the fall of 8avanaah, he sent agents thither to procure black recruits, and asked permission to do so afterwards. fyln England a restriction is placed on the gas companies by law, go that if the dividends exceed a certain percentage, the surplus falls to the government. tiff The Printers’ Union of St. Louis, has come to grief, and its members are allowed to find employment where they please, and to work for such prices as they choose to acoept. jy Col. Forney expresses the “hope and rea sonable belief’that before the dose of the pres ent session of Congress, Qeorgia will return to the Union, and have her Senators and Represen tatives in the national Congress. (yThe Aroostook Pioneer says the house of B. D. Hallett, of Castle Hill was destroyed by fire on Monday, 2d inst. The fire caught from a stovepipe. Nearly all of its contents were saved. ■yWhat purports to be an intercepted rebel letter says that Mr. Prentice talked like a traitor at Richmond. The Louisville Journal says the letter is a forgery, and Mr. Prentice did no such thing. EyThe strange statement is made that Gen. Dlx has found every incendiary who attempted to set fire to the New York hotels, but the whole matter is to be kept secret till after the war, for political reasons. jy The Franklin County Musical Institute will hold its annual session at Farmington, commencing Tuesday and continuing four days, under the direction of Mr. 3. Wilder of Ban gor. jyThe CongregationalUt reports the num ber of Congregational churches in Maine 247. No- members 19,376, additions in 1864, 806, by profession 616, removals 769,members of Sabbath Schools 21,487. ETA Nevada paper says that a “zephyr” came into Virginia City, took up a 2,2001b car off the railroad track and oarried it up over housetops and everything and dumped it down half a mile off. jy There can be very little doubt, we think, that the failure of the Wilmington expedition is referable to lack of harmony between the com manders of the naval and land forces. The whole thing needs investigation lyThe looal editor of an exoh&nge publishes his market report in the following punning style: “Tin plates are flat, lead heavy, iron dull, rakes not much inquired after, camphene brisk, rhubarb and senna are a drug, starch is stiffen ing and paper is stationary.” iy On Saturday last, the stockholders of the. People’s Bank of Waterville, voted not to sur render their charter to become one of the Na tional Banks. The Watervi|le Bank voted to surrender its charier immediately and organize under the National system. QTA member of Gen. Meade's staff recently saw a ragged boy with an uncommonly large muffler about his neck. He asked what was the matter with him, and he replied that he had got the itch. The offioer investigated, and found important despatches to Gen. Lee. jyCor respondents who write for this paper will confer a favor by observing two rules; 1st, to write only on one side of the sheet, and, 2d, to avoid abbreviations, write plain, spell the words out in full, and be carefol Of punctua tion. i ST A gentleman in Taonton has just received $9,000 stolen from him between Baltimore and Washington a year ago. It was recovered by deteotives, but as they had made a mistake in taking his name, they were nearly a year finding the owner. iyMr. King, father of tbe “Little Kings’ who make the Lathy’s Book, showed us yester day that little book neatly bound in red morocco. It makes a pretty volume. Every type has been set from the start by little Theo. I , a lad now of ten years, and the workmanship would do honor to a head on full-grown shoulders. lyCan anybody assign a good and sufficient reason why a pound of clean whitepaper should be cheaper than a pound of the poorest batting, made from the waste of the cotton mills, and requiring in its manu&oture no chemicals, no bleaching, nothing but tbe simplest mechanical manipulation? Will the Argus answer ? QV In his admirable lecture of Wednesday evening, J. 8. G. Abbott referred to the remark of Jeffi Davis that he would prefer the society of rattlesnakes and hyenas to that of Northern freemen. Said Mr. A., “If Providence should take him at his word, may God be merciful to all rattlesnakes and hyenas !” GW"Albert Merrill, Esq., of this city, has pre pared two poems, suitable for leotures, each of which we have had an opportunity of hearing, and consider exoellently adapted to please and instruct popular audiences. His topics are“Con servatism and Reform,” and “Popularity.” We oommeDd them to the attention of Lecture com mittees who have not yet filled their lists for this season.—[Transcript. Vt The Boston Daily Advertiser, speaking of the meeting held in Boston to raise supplies for the citizens of Savannah, reminds its readers that in 1774, when the “Port Bill” reduced Bos ton almost to tbe condition of a besieged town, the citizens of Savannah contributed rice, which sold for £216 in New York, and the sum was sent to the sufferers in Boston. fcJf'The British government have examined the plan proposed for uniting the British North American provinces in one confederation, and they accept it as being, in the deliberate judg ment of those beet qualified to decide upon the subject, the best framework of a measure to be passed by the imperial parliament Ibr attaining that most desirable result. tlY Mr. J. W. Concord, after an eight months’ absence from the office, has returned to his old place as one of the editors of Zion’s Advocate^ in this city. Mr. Coloord is a gentleman of long experience in such duties as will now devolve upon him,, of ripe scholarship, and of incor ruptible integrity, and he will hereafter devote his undivided attention to the interests of that journal. Sy An important witness in a case before the Superior Court, in session at Northampton, Mass., being absent, the sheriff was sent after him with a capias. The officer returned and said he had (band the man, and wanted tq know if the court insisted on his presence. The an swer was yes; but after the offioer explained that he was siok with tfee small pox, the court sud denly changed its mind, hf The -1 rgus was terribly disappointed and dissatisfied with Mr. Abbott's lecture before the Mercantile Library Association. Mr. Abbott goes for universal freedom, for unconditional loyalty to the Government, for preaching peace to rebels with cannon and mortar, and tor pros eouting the war till the last rebel shall submit tj> the authority of the Federal Government, flee his oountry, or dangle at a rope’s eni}. f his is a condition of mind to which our neighbor has not attained, and “that’s what’s the matter." |y|n the debate in Congress on the Consti tutions! amendment, several democrats have faced about apd urge the passage of the reso lution. Mr. Qdell, a democratic member trom New York, advocated the measure in an able speech, exhorting the Democrats to avail them selves of the opportunity to get rid of the incubus and odinm of further defence of an institution which has been destroyed tyr the war, commenced and prosecuted fpr ihepurposeof suatainingand extending it, and which had causeif their party tp be repudiated by the people. Legislature of Maine. W*Djn»DkY—The elections tor United States Senators were held andiresulted in the choice a# Hon. Wm. Pitt Feasenden for the long term and Hon, Nathan A■ Farwell for the short term. There, was no opposition to either In th? Senate. In the House the vote stood: Long term: Fessenden 116, Haines 23. tihort term: Farwell 118 Haines 21. In the Senate there was an interesting de bate on the extension of specie payments, the point in discussion being a motion to amend by requiring banks to redeem their bills in National currency, when requested to do so. The whole matter was finally referred to the Banking Committee. *" An order was adopted inquiring into the ex pediency of abolishing the office of Superin tendent of Common Schools. A similar order was adopted by the House with the addition of a clause suggesting the establishment of a Board of Education similar to that organized under the law of 1846. In the House an order was introduced look ing to the abolishment of the Board of Agri culture and all offices connected therewith. A resolve was Introduced in relation to the Reciprocity Treaty, which takes its first read ing Thursday. The respective county delegations are in structed to inquire into the necessity of in creasing the fees and salaries of certain coun ty .officers. An important order was passed restricting the time (or the introduction of private busi ness to February 1st, of public business to Febuary 10, and calling upon the Standing Committees to report finally on or before Feb ruary 17. Inquiry is ordered into the expediency of repealing the statute, referred to to in the Governor’s Address, deemed unfriendly legis lation by the Massachusetts Legislature, viz —the act to secure the safety of travellers on railroads, which prohibits the laying of a third rail on railroads in this State. Among the petitions presented and referred were the following: Petition of Oliver Moses, President of the Androscoggin Railroad, for leave to lay a side track in Lisbon; of the same as President of the Little River Manufacturing Company for a change of the name of said Corporation; of the Portland and Kennebec Railroad Compa ny to change the location of its track; of James Dunning and others for an act of incor poration for supplying the city of Bangor with pure water. A letter was read from Ira Wltham, Esq., resigning his seat in the House from the Rep resentative district of Raymoad and Cumber land. [Mr. Wltham is managing agent of the Portland Advertiser.] Bad Humor.—But one paper in the State that has come under our observation, has manifested any unpleasant feeling over the settlement of the Senatorial question by the Union members of the Legislature, and that is the Bangor Jeffersonian. Among other things its speaks of— “—An alleged bargain with the President when he called him [Mr. Fessenden] to the Treasury, as if the President would deliber ately cheapen that most important Depart ment in the Government by a six months dis posal of it.” This rather spiteful attack upon Mr. Fess enden we think is fully answered in another column, in the article in relation to the Sec retary of the Treasury. It is difficult to see how the President conld dispose of the Treas ury, or any other Department of the Govern ment for a longer term than six months, when his own term was to expire in that length of time. E7*The undersigned gives his exclusive atten tion to collecting Pensions, Bounties, Arrears ef Pay and Prize Money, for Officers, Soldiers, Seamen, or their Heirs. Office, 821-2 Exchange St.,opposite Postoffice, Portland. W. 8. SAWYER. Reference!—Hos. Sahuel Co.nt, Gov. of Ms., Hoh. Wm. Pitt FESsurDEX.Seo’y Treas’y. oct. 13 d 6m. SPECIAL NOTICES. Edward IP. Haines, WATCH MAKER, For several years past with N. J. Gilman, has re moved toNo. 1371 Middle street, second story, (over W. C. Beckett’s store) where he will be heppy to re ceive the patronage of his firmer customers, and tke public generally. All work entrusted to his eare will receive his per. sonal attention. January 2,1866—duw PORTLAND Photographic Gallery, ALONZO S. DAVIS, Proprietor, 80 Middle St., Portland, Me. Copying done in the best manner, dec29tf WAR REN’S Water-Proof and Leather Proiervor, FOB BOOTS AND SHOES. For sale at Mr. J. W. Mansfield's Store, 174 Middle st, Portland, Ms. deo21dtw2m French Language. Pro! Mssse returns thsnks for the patronage hith erto afforded him In this City, end gives notiee that his Winter Term will commence on Wednesday the 4th of January next. For further partloulars inquire at Messrs. Bailey and Noyes, between 12 and 1 o’olook. de«21d4w “DRY UP FOR THE CATARRH.” Header, did yon ever hear of thief If yon hare not, then let as tell yon nbnnt nn Invaluable Medl olne, and speak of what we know. Some time ago we purchased a bottle to try it, ns we have been much troubled with Catarrh. We undone bottle neatly and—we were cured. Dry Up is not an appropriate name fir this great medioine, as it is an expectorant. It clean out the muoous m-mbrane, allays all inflamation engender ed by long standing disease, heals the nasal organ, and gives tree vent to respiration. For the blessings in that'rejpect we now enjoy, we indite this item. In hopes that others afflicted may be similarly healed —Syracuse Constitutional ist. H. H. ILd Y, Druggist, Special Agent, Portland. JanMfwtf DB. TBBBJBTTB* p a y s i o l o a i cTa t HAIR REGENERATOR! ITS MODUS OPKBAMDI! Immediately beneath the scalp there are very small bodies called Glands ;or more commonly Roots of the Hair. It is from these G Hinds that every hair of the head is formed and secreted As long as the soalp ii free from disease these bodies also remain Wiltlir, and the hair keeps its natural appearance and color But when humors and other diseases af fect the scalp these glands become involved la the same disease, and the hair gradually tarns gray, dry and brittle. Sooner or latex the hair begins to fall off, and in many oases, If not arrested, noil produce complete baldness. To remedy this pathological condition of the glands, and create a new and healthy motion, the Physiological Hair Regenerator has proved a per fect success. It isnot» "Dy«," and will not 8U!n a particle. It will positively''HaaTORXtiKAT Uair" in All cases to its o-igioAl oolor. It promotes a growth of new hair in all oases on Bald Hoad, when the glands or roots of the hair are not completely disorganized.— It prevents the hair from falling off, and removes all dandrulc heat, humors and itching from the seaip. It keeps the hair soft, moist and perfectly healty.and rives It a glossy and beautiful appearance. It is highly perftimed,and as a dressing it has no supert or. The ■ • Hegeuerator" is warranted to produce the above results in nil eases, if not the money to be refunded. With it every ‘'Gray Head” la New Eng. land oan be restored in less than thirty days. Pries II. per Bottle. TEBBETTS BROTHERS, Druggists and Chemists, Propristors, Manchester, OBOROM O. QOQDWllf f CO., 88 ifanovor street, Boston. General Wholesale Agents W. W. Weiifplk, Agent fof Portland, Maine. jan Seed 4m* HAfcE’B H O n E Y OF HORBHOUND and TAR! FOB TBB CURB OF Coughs, Cglds, Influenza, Hoarseness, Difficult Breathing, and all Affections of the Throat, Bronchial Tubes and Lungs, leading to Consumption. This sovereign remedy is oimpounded from the favoritr recipe oi an illus:rioas Physician and Chem ist, who for many years used it with the most com plete success in his extensive private praotiee. Re had long been profuqd'y impressed with 'he wonderful virtue othcoey ufthe plant Uorehound, In union with the Cleansing and Heating properties of tar extracted from the Life Principle of the forest treo Abies Ralscunea or Balm of UilmMI For yenra he was balnea In his attempts to blend those great medlalnal forces ipto spill a uuoa that the original power of eaoh wunld be pr served, the disagreeable Sialltiea ofeommoa tar removed, and the prioa of e compound be within the means of all. At last, alter a lone oourse of difficult chemical experiments he found that by adding to these flee other Ingredi ents, eaoh one valuable by itself, he not only obtain ed the do d red results, but greatly increased the ouratlve power at the eompoand. This ha lag been thoroughly tested by practice, is now offered to the general public ns alaib,pleasant and Infallible rem edy. f riet 60 Cents per Batttle. gift" *ale b7 W' phiUlP*. Portland, and nil d rag CBAnuxa Doufxnn, General Agent, novtdam 4^ Cedarst.,new York. Brighton and Cambridge Cattle Market. WcnnsDAT, Jan 11,1*8*.—Amount of Stock at xiutL®- *s- ‘*arF“*» Last weak ... .8808 . 8881 » Mao AMOUNT C» 8TOO* raOM SAOB «TAT». Cattle. Sheep. Maine. .7Tl8» «» New Hampshire. .. 818 It*® Vermont. ;80 1060 Mas»schu8etts. 121 683 £»" Vork. 177 870 Western States. 52* 00 Canada.**“**'• gj 00 Total,......2126 £683 Paic«8-&<iJ Cattle—Extra 813J@ll) p ft; first qualltv, oonsistlng of good oxen, best .’eers, fcc, at U @ 18; second qnalttj, gooa fair beef, 11 @12; third quality, light young cattle, 8 @10; Poorest grades, 7 @8 -on the total weight of hide, tallow, and beet. Working Oxen—From 8136 to 280, according to age and quality. Oats—Ordinary from 845 to 70; Extra, from 875 to 116; Farrow, fcc, S28@40. Stares—Xearliugs from 813 to 16; Two years old $24 to 40; Three years old, 46 to 60. sheep and Lambs—Sheep 7)@ Be lb; Sheep and Lam be in lots $4@0 f> head. Swine—Fat bogs, 14 @14 jc; Shoats, 1$ @15c. live weight; 18 @20j lor dressed. Calf Skins from 18 to 2 o per lb. felts 2 60@$3 eo; oouutry lots, $1 60@2 25. i/ides—10@llc @ ft. Tallow—10@13o. Kimasss—But few store cattle were offered this week, and very few from Maine, and these few were mostly fair loef. The light stook was mostly taken at Portland, where largo quanties are put up in oans. There Is no material cha. ge in prices. One pair 4 years old, G loot 6 inches.. $180 “ oxen, 6 feet 6 " . J48 “ “ 4 years old, « feet 4 •• 122 •* “ oxen, 6 leet 6 •< 166 V “ oxon, Gleet 2 “ 130 , " & years old, 8 feet 0 •• 11$ " “ 5 feet 10 «■ IU0 “ “ oxon Gleet 10 “ 216 Boston Stock List, sans at tbi Bioiiu' Board. Ju. u. 6 000 Americas Gold...2]8 1. U00.do...2175 8.000 .do. 3171 15 500 .do.. J171 2.000 .do.3181 1 6.0 United Sta ee Currency 7 8-lOthe. 99) 600 .do (endorsed). 99] 6.000 .do....99| 8.000 United States Ten-Forties.109) 600 .do.Mil 1,100 United States 7 8-lOths (Oct).119) 2, 00 United States 5-20’s. 110 600 .do.110] 100 .da.110] 29 000 .do...110 1.000 United States Debt Certificates (Oct).97] 8 000 .do. 102) 27 000 U S Coupon Sixes (1881).112] 2,400 .do (small).112] 1.000 Ogdensburg 1st Mortgage Bonds,. 96 8.11OO Bost.u A New York Air Line K R Sixes 00 1.090 New Hampshire Sixes, 1884. 96 8.600 Rutland 2d Mortgage Bonds.26 8.000 Vermont Central R R 2d Mort.. .■. 24 8 Western Kailroed.160 14 Eastern Railroad.108) 22 Old Colony and Fall Riser Railroad.121] 6 Vermont and Canada Railroad.k8] 26 Vermont aud Massassachasetls R R. 4s _ 1BB1M). In this city, Jan 12, by Rev H D Moore, Fernald Libby, of Portland, and Mua Lacy E Skilllu, of Gray In Rookland, Jaa 1, Capt Thomas A Kennedy and Miss Henrlct a Saunde.s; Richard A Gurney, of Waldo, and Misa Clara Harrows, of R. In Rockland, Deo 6, Charles N Young, of Goulds boro, and Misa Eliza Banker, rl R. In Rookland. Dec 81. Tbomae D Little and Mlse Aleth a A Richards, both of Bremen. In Roekland.Jan 1, Pembroke S Crockett and Kirs Annie Wall. In Camden, Jan 3*Bapt Wm H Luce,of Rookland, and Eliza U Carlton, ot C. __PEEP. In this city, Jan 12. Freddie M, only child of Gao W and Eliza Gardiner, aged 6 years 8 months. Darling Freddie, how we'll miss thee,— But let our tears not bid thee stay; Freed from earth and all its fetters, Angels guide the* on thy way. [ Skowhegan papers please copy.) «3P*Funeral on Friday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, at residence, 844 Congress street. in Cope Elisabeth. Jan 8, at the realdenre of Dr Bussell, Mr Wm H Preston, aged 48 years. lu Farmington. Jan 10. Mrs K B Winter, eldest daughter of J S Switt, aged —. On board ship Ess ern Star, April 14, on the pas sage from Cardiff to Kio Janeiro, James H, oldest son of James and Mary A Elliott, of Bowdoin, aged 23 yearr. The deceased left home in the month of August, 1888. and at the tims of bis death his speedy return was fondly anticipated by his family and friends. Hut a wise Providence saw fit to disappoint their anticipations. He died of lerer after a sickness of ten days and was burled ut sea on the equator, In long 27 West. Capt Neally speaks in the highest terms ef the character of young Elliott, and both himself and his excellent lady maaitested their In terest in him by the m st devoted attention in his ioknes*. He wss m-urned on ship-board as a broth er, and bis loss is a severe affliction to a large oiro e who knew him but to love him well. Cox In Keckiaad. Dee 11, Elerson, son of Mr Elerson Thomas, aged 16 years. In St George. Nov 16. Almira Pienon, aged 18: 18tb, Mary H Brown, aged 12 yean. In 8t Geoige, Not 80, Mrs Mahala A Wall, aged 24 years; Dee 2, Capt Sami Dizer, aged 72 JBf The f moral services ef the late M-a Mai 8 Libby will take place this afternoon at 8 o'clock, at her late residence, No 124 Bracket strict. IMPORTS. TURKS ISLAND. Sch Windward-6600 bushels salt, order. UBaND KENAN NB. Sell Empire-3000 boxes berriog, 14$ bbls do. 1 ex bide, to muter. MINIATURE ALMANAC. Friday...Jainsrr I 3. Sun rise*.7 28 I Sun acts.4.51 | Leegtb of day*.9 23 High water (a m)_11.10 VIA.RHSTE NEWS, PORT OP PORTLAND. Thursday,...Jwmwary 1». ARRIVED. Steamer Montreal, Lisoomb, Boston. Sch Windward, Barrington. Turk* Island Seh Empire. (Br) Daggett. Grand Menan NB. Bob Aetioa, McFadden. Salem lor Kaatport Sob Solon, Beardman, Camden for Boston Sob Keponeet, Snow, Rockport tor Boston. CLEARED. Barque Gan Eden, Reed, Cardenas-Chase Bros A Co. Soh Lookout, Lane, Baltimore—P B Burnham Sob Goo Young, Cartia, New York-R G York k Son. 8ek Susan Sentar, of Beverly, 74 tons, baa been purchased by parties in Portland fur *8000. DOMESTIC PORTS. w BALTIMORE—Cld llth, sob Ada Ames, Marston Boston. * 5“ •‘Kbri* Romance, Dunoan, Novesoa. Cld 10th, sob Adriana, H tdlams. Boston FHXLADELFUIA-Cld 9th, sch A S Hatch, PLi. lipj, Boston. Ar 10th, barque Myra. Dm, to Hillsboro NB; sch Hiawatha. Ingraham. Rockland. NEW YORK—Cld 10th, brig Alice Gray, Mata* inoru Cld llth, ■hip* Midnight, Crooby, Sun Francisco; soh Got Cony, Brown, Port Koyal 8C. Ar 18th, barques Rccbabite, trem Ragged Island Union, fm Cape Breton j brigs A H 1 atter.on, tram Laguayre; Alice Smith, Matamoraa; Calmuck, Pet tengfil, Sagna Below, tbipa Hudson, and E W 8tetaon, from Lon don. NEW LONDON—Ar #th, brig Orozimbo. Trucy, Bath°for<FortrMa‘l(onroe.Mt> 5 “ * Lubeo lor do; Mary Brewer, Pease, Mattapeiaett for 0: Union Flag, Maloney, Wise asset Tor Fortress Monroe; Rod Jaokett, Averlll, from Rockland for Norfolk. | Also in port, sobs Juliet. Billiugs. Boston for New Orleans*; Christina, Rlohirds, Portland tor Fortress Monroe; N Berry, Plummer, Bath lor do; Bloomer tilwell, to Greenpoint LX tor Boston; Geo 8 Fogg Paine, Boston for Fortress Monroe; Ella, Bradlev' DamariscotU for Cambridge, Md. T' HOLMES'S HOLE-Ar 10th, sobs Edward A De* Hart. Lowe Deal’a Island for Boston; Jaa Freeman Voung. and Albert Claieece, Freeman, Portland for Baltimore; Col Joneu, HU1, do for New Ycrk; Abby Gale, McDonald, Belfast for do. ’ BOSTON—Ar llth, barque LeoMel, Graham, to Pfctou No. Cld llth. barque Wm H Randall. Goudy Sierra Leone; brigs Commodore, (new)D K Small San Franoisoo; Stockton, Hlehborn, New Orleant ’ Ar ljtb, sebsororimbo, Dunbar, Caitiue: Cestui* lane, Cunningham, Ballast; BramhaU. Ricker; Citi aen, Upton, and Leeaburg, Snowman. Portland. old 18th, ships Moan tain Wave/Sean ( slcutla; Geo Turner, Hopklat, Bombay; brig Chea Miller, Brewer, Goree. Sid llth, barques Evelyn,and Ionlo; brigs Llzabel, J Leighton, and J Molutyrs. SALEM—Ar llth, sch Eliza Parker, Knowlton. Belfast. GLOUCESTER—Ar 7th, schs Mossonger, Holden. Rockland for Alexandria; Julia Newell. Jobnsoa, Pbiladeipba; Oasis. McDonald, Ballast for Boston; Alida, York, Boston. Ar 9th, sobs C C Farnsworth, Gray, Buoksaort for Boston; Harmons, B nnett, Calais for New Haven: Callsla. Hall, Elizabethport. Ar 10th. sobs Aetna. MoFadden, Salem; Cherry, D dge. Boston for Portsmoith; Oliver. Maloney. Bangor for Boston; Neptune, ifow, Calais for New port; Orozimbo, Dunbar, Castine tor Boston FOREIGN PORTS, At Newcastle NSW Oot 19. barque A W Stevens, Brown, from Otlco, At C'aloutts ltih ult, ship Cromwell, Crooker, for Boston. Id*. Ar »t Manila 18th ult. barque Lemuel, Friend, fto Boston. • • At Bombuy Nov 98. ships Rtlen Bluart. Lyons, end Gurnet, Bradford unc; and others Off Queenstown 2* h tot. ship Gettysburg. Kdger ly, from Bangor tor Liverpool; barque Sneedwoll i Dixon, from Philadelphia. quo opeeoweu. ^'d rm Munmnill. 23d ult, brig Ret a»r. Cvmnn. New Verb?idS" ** **'«“• P%‘° ^to. Wiley, for Amt Havana 4th Inst, "Artomede.” (Bn ihn Portland; 6th. Protege. Reynolds. Boston W " old 6to, briiis CiioRttginn, liyrriuian Muttimnru 6th. Fannie. Hubb.rf, Boeton *UtlamorM. *[L‘1 Stereos, fronds* W 8«»h B Crosby, Crosby, Sid 6th. barque Ada Carter, Kenner New fork. P^el^r0 HB 6lh ** ^Kf LuOt. to fPer steamshto Moravlau.l DAr*‘ Liverpool 9mh ult, Mary Kmma, Patten, fat Portland v in Bt John NB; 28th, filar of the West, reriy. New York Sid fm Liverpool 24th n>t, Juliet Trundy. Gould, lJr York: A M Lpvett. lor Bt John NB; 26th, Wm Libby, Bianop, BM*; ^«k, America. Mortimer. New York. Shrphrrd, Chapman. Gibraltar. Cld at London 94tn. Lottie Warren, Uoimee, for Port Phillip and Genoa. Ar at Deal 24th. C Urinuell, Speaoer, from London for New York; 26ih, Catharine Jane, tin Portland ifH^indan. Ai«2S«°r*T*,“d *"*■*■•. Worrit hew, lb, fo^Lo^d"1’' B*7 U'h "lt• Siml‘-Fou"' Calcutta M^..ri“.{jreenock a8th' Keb*C0« Shepherd, Somera, Ar at Leith 28th, Nevada, Bartlett, Callao. 8ws'owVillKt,e °0t *’ SUr °f Pe,oe' Kendrick, fm Amo fm Shsn*hae N'°v 6, Lizzie Boggs, l>izer, for „ Ar at Foochow Oct 31, James Miller, Carboactto. Shanghae. Ar at Hoag Kong Cot 30, Winged Arrow, Berry, 8»n Irancisco; 81st. Magenta, Jauvrin, Yokohama, («ndsldNov6 for Whampoa); Nov 8. Cbaj- Bam ciScntU11 Fr“oi,co; ll>h. Xlooaderoga, Rice, irom Sid Nov 8, Dashing Wave, Lecraw, for Singapore; 12th, Hamlin. Wheelwright,Calcutta; 14th, Golden West, Jewett. Singapore. Ar at Whampoa Nov 8, Magenta, Janvrin, from Hong Kong. Sid fm Swatow Nov 6, Star King, Smith, Shang hae. (and put back 8th.) Ar at Ningpo Oct 26. Northern Crown, 8annd»rs. Hong Kong; 29tb, Sarah Newman, Cobb.'lm Shang hae. Ar at Singapore Not 10, Rival, Doane from Hong Kong; Hamlet, btevens, Melbourne; 14th, Aselia, Brown. Hong Kong. Bid Nov 14. Borneo. Hurt, Boston via Penang. Passeu Aojier Oot 47, Prince of Wales, Crabb. fm Kbanghae for New York; Nov 6, Maria Reas, Rase, Melbourne for Hong Kong. Ar at Qasseiu Nov 9, Joe Holmes, Hopkiae, from Rangoon. Ar at Maulmain Oct 80, Minnesota, L avitt, from Galle. Sid Oct 4. Lorenzo. Merriman, England. Sid ftn Rangoon Nov 4, W A Farnsworth, Thorn dlk-, Penang. Ar at Calcutta Nov 16, Vicksburg, Boyd. New Zen. land; 18ih, Akbar, Cbase, San Francisco. Ar at Bombay Nov 18, Jewess, btevens. Boston 20th, Garnet. Bradford, do. Sid Nov 26. Eureka, Hal1, Calcutta. Ar at Palmero 14th alt, Mary Bdson, Howes from Cadiz: 18th. JoesieNicholas, Nicholas, Barbsdoea Sid 17th ult, M Lewis, Lewis, for New York; 18tb, Marco Polio, Roberts, Philadelphia Ar at Genoa 28d ult, Addison Gilbert, Coek. from Callao. Sid ftn St Nazaire 20th ult, William Tell, French. Cardiff. SPOKEN . Oct 12. lat 16 N Ion 120 K, ship St Paul. Crowell, from Manila tor Cork. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. A GRAND PROMENADE CONCERT! IN AID OF THE Portland "Soldiers’ Bast!” W til be (Iren at CITY HALL, ON Tuesday lan’y 14ih, ims, Under tledireotion of tbo following .General Managers. Lieut. Col. G. L. Andrews, U. S. A. Major James Mann, TJ. 8. A. Ms)or Hiram Rollins, V. R. C. Captain Henry Inman, U. 9. A. Captain Charles Holmes, U. 8. A. Captain Charles H. Donghty, Pro. Mar. Floor Managers. J. Frank Dyer, J. Hall Boyd, Henry P. Wood, J. C. M. Vnrbfah, Elias Thomas, 2d, Wm. R. Wood. Music by tbs celebrated 17th XJ. S. Inf. Band, Under tbe Leadership of ProL A. POPPENBERG. Dancing to eommsnee at 8 o’clock Tiekete admitting a gent>eman end tarty, 60 eta gentleman,tingle, 65 eta; lady, single. 26 ote- -Jtr be procu.es at a.II L Dads’. LowoU ft rnetii’Y Crossman | Co’s, and at tbe door. JaalSid ' State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. [yoria of Retorn for Ioauraooe Comi.aaiss with an. oiflo Capital, doing business la " h ^ quired by the laws of the Stats of Rborts wind t return OF THJE . Merchants Insurance Ccmp’y Incorporated. May, 185J. J ' (To be aigned end sworn to b* tbe WeaM.nt ..h Secretary, end returned to the •tnE^SJSISL??4 Office, Providence") A“d,'“r • 1 Amount of Capitol, njnn ryn m l«t of Cep til actually ' ° 00 pal J in, la caeh. 200 ooo no Mincer of lnYeetmeat. * 8 Bow much Invested in mortgagee, none. 4 liow tnurh invested in pvblie seonritiee. particu laming etc a item. U. 8. certificates ol indebted - »d'» maeh in Bank Steok m°°° °° t#’000 00 and other ineorpotsted companies, particularizing e e i item ^’l^sbaroa Bank Commerce. ’ It »0 •* American Bank. 400 " Merchants Bank, 4.0 *• Globe Bank. 100 “ Phenlx Bank, 10 J " WbatCheor Bank, •700.0*0 OO 5 Amount of premium not< a, BA 1M aa 7 Amount of bills reoeivsb's other than premium notes, specifying »n ,Bnt loaned on oollateral security. __ 8 amount loaned on person al security. _ • Amount of cash on band. a ijo s* 10 amount of eash in hands of agents, 7Ago 76 11 Other assets not abovo specified, _ H A (mount which may bo, by charter, assessed upon par ties is sored, nothing. -- 813,717 17 LIABIUTIBS. 13 Amount of murine risks outstanding 130 074 pp 14 Am’tofpremiams thereon, 4 676 8U 18 Amount of dro risks out standing, designating tie amount of each olasa, 4,736,194 00 One Clara. 18 A mount of preuinms there on, designating the amount "'•““or. Class. 17 Amount ot outstanding claims adjusted sad due. none 19 Amount ot outstanding cairns adjusted and not due, none. 19 Amount of ontstaading oinims unmdjust* d, 4 (fp 00 30 Anoiiii of loans, borrow ed money and bank dis counts, 8 000 80 -u- 13,600 W 31 Amount ofother liabilities, none. 33 Larrest amount insnreden any one risk, 3\l8i) to Providence, December 81st, 1864 Wm. coihtock, Pro .dent. Waltbu Patna, Seoretery. Stale 0/ Rhede Island, 1 City of Providence, Jsnnnry 8, 1806.1 M' Personally appeared William Comstock Presi dent, and Waiter raine. Secretary, or the above namea Company, and severally made oath that Ibe above statement bv them subeoribed, Is. in the r best knowledgtand belief, tiuo,sndtpsttheamount of oapitnl actually paid in, in cash, auo invested, exelusiro ot any obligations of tho stool holders of any de oription, amounts to tho anm ofons hundred thousand uollars. Johh Foster, JutUeeof the Peuce. J. W. IKITNGEft & CO.. Ajt n'a and Attorney!, jaal8eod3w No. 188 Fore it, Pori laid, ue. I 99 Cheap Coai. Chestnut Coal. 150 by 8 C“*,tnat Co*lon and for sale RANDALL, McALLI&TER A CO., At 118,40per ton. jaaMcaw"* Com“*'ei‘1 ■*. h«»« «* Main. Wharf. PORTLAND A KKNNKBKC R. R. to. TH£‘“.""i1 “*«*”« of ‘he stockholders of tkr J^T*SdfDd Keuai^o Kaf.road to. will he ^»Ayth. Mariwaa l>rpo,, fa Brunswick. CD. tor ot J*n“ry' 186i« *t# O’olock A. M, lur then following purposes: — J5r5* oaoo,®» Chairman and Secretary. Tris^url? Kcport of the Directors and T ad“f Rf M,d 0^mt“u>'. and to aot thereou. o.nr^,Vhu0,,e‘Bo*rd °» *»"«•» ot com* P*®7 'or tho ensuing year. orii k*^° *5°—1Ilc* °tbcr banioess an may prop •,yt£“®d#n NAtH.R. WUlTMoBil, jAalidtd_ Beo'y. N O T I O B . A SPECIAL MeeMogof th : • trek holders of *»«• «ew England yore* Steamship t rmpaoy nil D tpoM Oil Friday, tho 20:h day ot January in-tawt aH o dock r n, at the roil o of the companion Bronn'a Wharf. In Portland, for the following pur. i Ftriif—Toaoo whether tho etoekholdere will tu, thoriae the Wrrolor* to charter or purchase a steam er to toko the plaoo of thi Potomac 6*m SVfiZnJu •** wh,t *0,lon eSall bo taken In ... „,rd tobolldluKO new , earner. ' ! "ie '0 lay an ee went tor the Aove purpoeoe if doomed exp^. Poirtk—To aot on any other business trat n... properly came before them. “** m*T “T °rter •» Uin DlreoWn. JanlMlw UkNkY FOX, Clerk. Wlaiae luiaianc* Company, THSltnDD!l,i Me«‘Dgorthe etookho'iiers In lhi a loeuranee Company will te held }?* c|nce of the ooiu any. in Aumiits on w«h ^tb# tar t?a‘afe2I “V*”*1'7 . »» <«■> o’clivJa®!,l<,*E> °* °*ewe. and,'he traaaac lo- A" “•» other buainaao that ».r 1e.ai* j«» ■!. w I«kve Tour Demand, for Collect Qn At B D. VERRILL’S LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE .Wo. UX MlddU St., Portland. J,n,W