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PORTLAND DAILY PRESS. Established June 23,1862. Vol.8. PORTLAND, MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 11, 1869. Terms $8 00 per <mnurn,~fa advance. THE PORTLAND DAILY PRESS la published every day, (Sunday exc-yfed.) at No. 1 Printer*’ Exchange, Exchange Street, Portland. N. A. FOSTER, Proprietor. Terms :—Eight Dollars a year in advance. UP Single copies 4 certs. THE MAINE STATE PRESS, is published et the tatne place every Thursday morning et $2.58 a year; it paid in advance $2.00 a year. Rates op Advertising.—One Inch of space, In length ol column, constitutes a “square. $1.50 per square daily first week. 75 cents per week after; three insertions, or less, $1.00; continu ng every other dav alter first week, 50 cents. Flail square, three inseriions or less, 75 cents: one week, $1.00; 50 cents pe ■ week alter. Under head of “Amusements,” $2.00 per square per week; three insertions or less, $1.50. Special Notices, $1.25 per square lor the first Insertion, and 25cents per square lor each subse quent insertion, Advertisements inserted in the “Maine State Press” (which has a large circulation in every part ol the State) for $1.00 per square lor tirst insertion and 50 cents per square lor each subsequent inser tion. tyAddress all communications to “Publishers of the Press." JOSEPH W. AKERS 7s Traveling Agent for tbe Press, Daily andWeekly, ann is authorized to appoint local Agents, receive obscriptions and to settle bills. BUSINESS OAKU8. B. B. WILEY, Real Estate and Loan Agent, 148 Washington Street, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. I tty All business connected with Real Estate caro lully attended to. Special a'tention given to the investmentol money in mortgages on Real Estate. Refer to Edward A. Nov es, Esq, Portland. Dec 28-fcod"m DAY A MURPHY, Wholesale Dealers in Fine Paper, OF ALL KINDS, Paper Rulers & Blank Book Manufacturers. Also Blank Music Paper, Bill-Heads, &c. Agent* for tbe Allen Enrelope Manf. Co* 5 d; 0 Milk St„ Boston. E. L. Day, I B. B. Allen, A. B. Murphy, | Special Agent. Dec 12-eodlm W. H. CLIFFORD, Counsellor at Law, And Solicitor of Potent., Office Oorner Brown and Congress Streets, _BBOWN S NEW BLOCK. au24 PLU MBING! R. E. COOPER & CO., Practical Plumbers, and dealers In Lead Pipe, Bran, » opper. Iron Force and Lift Pump., Baihiug Tubs, » nter Closets. irouMinlis, Marble Mn.ta Stand Tops, stoop sou. Sinks, Wash TrtiyH.and All kinds of Plumbing Materials. |y Orders solicited and promptly attended -o. No. 109 Federal St., Portland, Hie. _«ep2S_ d&wtl New England Patent Agency HAT DEN, McLELLAN & CO., 933 1-9 Congress St., Portland, Me., DEALER8 IN VALUABLE PATENTS! Patent Rights bought and sold. Inventors are invited to correspond. All new inventions solic ted. Agents wanted. n. si. rsjxsujy, Attorney and Counsellor, S4J Middle Street, next (loot to Canal Bank, PORTLAND. MAINE, Oct 2S-d&wtt WATTSON & CLARK, Manufacturers ot Croasdale's o'canine Super Phosphate 7 The Standard fertiliser for all Orops, PHILADELPHIA. WHOLESALE NEW ENGLAND DEPOT, S. H. ROBBINS, Bo. 131 Commercial Street, Portland, Me Deoember 16. d&w2m FI)LEfi, DANA & F1TZ~ IMPOETEBS OP Iron, Steel, Tin Plates, Sheet Iron, and Metals, HO North St., Boston, OFFER FOR SALE Beet Refined Bar Iron, Tin Plates, Hoopa, Bands aud 8crol's. Terne Plates lor Roofing, Plaie, Angle and T Iron, Kng. and AmericanSheet Rivet Iron. Swarf Iron. JroD, Bolt Iron, Spike Iron, Russia and RG Sheet Iron Ship and Railroad Spikes, Imitation and FrenchPol Oval and hall' round I ton. .'shed Sheet Iron, Shoe Shapes, Horse Rails, Galvanized Sheet Iron, Norway and Swedes Iron Sheet Copper and Zinc, and Shapes, Banca, Straits & Eng Tin or way Kan Hods, Copper Bottoms and Brass Steel ol every description, Kettles, Tinmen’s furnish’g goods, Iron Wire, &c., &c. Also agents tor the sale ol Naylor ,t> Co.’s Cast Steel, Muntz's Yellow Metal Sheathing. Sept 8- d6m ** HMB\ HYDE Hitt IT II, COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Room 49, Old Ntate House, Bep9’68diyr_ BOSTON, MASS. EASTON, SAMPSON & TENNEY Man u tael urers of TIN WARE Ot every Dcscni tion WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Conductors made to Order. P\um Street, Portland, Me. Homatio P. Easton, Wm a. Sampson, Kelson Tenney. Hr Repairing neatly done. aul7dtf C. J. SCHUMACHER, FRESCO PAINTER. Oflce at the Drug Store of Messrs. A. Q. Schlotter beck & Co., 303 Congress Nt, Portland, IRe, Jal2dtf_ One door above Brown. W.H. PENNELL &CO., Q-as and Steam Fitters ! No. ill Uniou Street, Portland. ItT* Houses fitted with Pipes for Gas, steam or water, in a w orkmanlike manner, and satisfaction varranted. mayl dtt SHERIDAN & GRIFFITHS, plasterers, PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL STUCCO & MASTIC WORKERS, NO. 6 SOUTH ST., - - PORTLAND, ME. Prompt attention i aid to all kinds ot Jobbing onv line. _ apr22dtf A SURE CURE FOR C •! T . 2 It 11 II! DEMERBITT’S North American Catarrh Itemedy. _ Boston. June 19,1868. D. S. Demfrritt & Cn.—Gents: For the last fit teen years I was afflicted with Chronic Catarrh. I have used many remedies but obtained no help un til 1 tried your North Amtrican Catarrh Itemedy. When I commenced using it 1 had nearly lost my voice: less ihan two packages completely restored It to me again N. S. LILLIE. Employed for 16 years by Amei lean Express Co. „ T „ Gardiner, Me., Aug 29,1868. ,I)emfreitt & Co.—Gents: This Is to certl c' ?;',1,,1 “Merely afflicted with Chronic Catarrh in its most aggravated torms with a drop ping In my throat, l have us d not ouilc one naek ages Ot jourNorth American Catarrh Itemedy, which has permanently.cured me. I cannot sneak tnnhmh ly ofthis valuable remedy. ahelTkfn,?h 8 Formerly a Policeman oi Gardiner These testimonials area sample ot what we are t daily receiving. We warrant to give immediate and ' permanent relier, as can be attested by thousands who have used it. Sold by all druegis s. Price St a package. D. J. DEMEHBITT A CO.,Prop’trg. Tested free at their offlee, 117 Hanover Stieet. Boston. At wholesale by W. F. Phillips A Co. ami E. L. Stanwood. decl2eod3m Orpins and flelodeons Of the latest Improved Style and Tone. Manufactur ed by WM. P. HASTINGS, •Vo. 15 Chestnut Street, Portland, MAINE. The Organ is the beBt Reed instrument now in oieed with a rich, mellow and iwnvert'ul tone " 'nfi! great aim has been to manufacture an instrument tn please the eye and satisiy the ear. A iso improved Melodeons, the latest of which is a newly arranged Swell, which does not put the in strument out of tune. Also keeps on hand Piano Fortes of the best styles and tone. dcfleodly WM. P. HASTINGS. WPrieelist sent by mall, REMOVALS. REMOVAL! The subscriber having removed from his old stand Portland Hiding Academy, —TO THE— City Hotel Stables! Will be happy to meet and wait upon his old flriands and the public at his new place (as above) Cor. Congress and Green Streets, Where they will find an assortment ot new and beautiful Teams, all sizes, that “can’t be beat.” Also will pay special attentiou to boarding, bait ing, &c.. as heretofore. B^*Kemember tbe place and'call at J. W. ROBINSON’S. Ja2dtf REMOVAL. rpHE Agency of the following Fire Insurance Com J. nanies is removed to tbe Nfcw Banking Boom of the hlaine Savings Bank, on the Corner of Middle and Plum Sts., Under the St. Julian Hotel, Manufacturers Insurance Cornp’y, or BOSTOiV, MASS. Royal Insurance Co., or Liverpool, England Hyde and Leather Ins. Co., Of Bouton, mass. All with an aggregate Capital ol #7,000,000. The subscriber will take Fire risks in the above Companies at such rates as maybe deemed equita ble. 1YATH’L F. PEEKING, No, 100 Middle Street. Corner or Plum Street. Dec 12, 1868. dcH<16w OUR STOCK OF FRENCH CLOCKS l , BRONZES, FIGrTTRES, &c., &c., Is very large and will be sold DOW, AT McDUFFEE’S. dcleodtf Notice. VTOTICE is hereby given that the subscribers have -Li been duly appointed Commissioners to receive and decide upon all claims against the estate of Jo seph W. Chandler, late of Portland. The creditors arc hereby noiitied that we will receive and examine claims against the said estate at our office, 117 Com mercial street, on the 20th day of January, 18G9, and on the 20th day ot each month until the 20th day ot April, inclusive. C M. DAVIS dec21dlaw3w ALBERT MARWICK. JOHN A. MONTGOMERY, Having purchased the stock and TAKEN STORE JYo. 143 Congress Street, Occupied by the late Capt George L. Fickett, would invite the old customers, his triends and the public to a select assortment of Drugs and medicines, CIGARS and TOBACCO, Perfumer j, Toilet and all Fancy Articles (usually kept in a retail Drug Store. N. B. Physicians* prescriptions carelully prepared by Mr. Chas. O. Chamberlain, an accomplished and experienced Apothecary. Store open irom 6 A M to 10 P M. Oct 19,18C8-eod3m Schooner lor Sale. , j Tlie Sch. Marion, six years old, all micU wbi,e oak, copper fastened, coppered /7f f\ with pure copper. Length 616-12 teet t -fflilAlLA- 18 teet beam; depth of hold 6 9-12; in splendid order; nearly new suitof fails; well tound in chains, anchors and rigging. Would make a first class Yacht or Fisherman. Now lying at Central Wharf. For further ml'or1, ation apply to d. S. WINSLOW, noyiedtf_ No. 4 Central Wharf. Coffins, Caskets, Desks, Show Cases and Office Furniture, Of Erery Description, Made from the best material and by EXPERIENCED WORKMEN, at C. H. BLAKE’S, sept18iltt No. 10 Cross St., Portland. Mo. 8E6*“" Sales Room foot ot Temple St, opp. Falmouth Hotel. Birds, Birds! A FEW German Canaries and Gold Finches. SPLENDID HINCEHS! A Beautiful Present for Christmas and New Year. A great variety ot HBIED CAGES I Ladies’ W ork & Traveling Baskets, Bread Plate* and Knives, CHILDREN'S KNIVES AND FORKS! Rogers* Plated Ware! Also, a general assortment ot Kitchen Furnishing Goofs can he found at A9 market square. C, C. TQLMA.1V, Agent. Dec 23-d2w FOR JZALE ! One Second-Hand Engine Lathe, 18 leei long, swing 27 inches. Also one New Drill Lathe. Enquire ot KNOWLTON BROS., | iune 30dtf Saccarappa. For Sale! , J The Schooner ANNA M. NASH, of gsP/ Boothbay, Me., 125 tons, carpenter’s /7f:T\ measurement, in good condition, well found in sails, rigging, anchors and chains. Is an extra built vessel, and carries veil in proportion to her tonnage; lour years old, and is a good sailer. Sold to close a concern. For further particulars apply to Nickerson, perry & thacher. October 30,1868. dtt The Portland & Ogdensburg It. It. COMPANY. WHEREAS, it appears that the Capital Stock in said Corporation, as prescribed and establish by their Act of Incorporation, has been duly sub scribed for and taken up, agreeably to the provisions ot said Act. Public notice, therefore, is hereby riven that the FIRST M FETING of said Corporation will be held at the City Hall, in Portland, in said State of Maine, on Tuesday, the nineteenth day of January next at ten o’clock in the forenoon, for the purpose ol organizing said Corporation: and to that end 1st. To choose a Chairman to preside at said Meeting. 2d. To choose a Clerk to record the doings of said Meeting. 3d. To make, ordain and establish a Code ot By Laws and Regulations for the government of said Corporation, and the due and orderly conducting of their affairs, and the management ot their property. 4th. To choose a Board of Directors agreeably to the provisions ot their charter. 5th. To act on any other matter or thing which may legally come betore them. Given under our hand, at Portland,this twenty-eighth day of December, in the year ot our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. J B Brown, Jonas H Perley, George W Woodman, S O Smith, I Waidiburn, Jr, Henry Fox. M N Rich, H W Jose, * S E Spring, G F Shepley, John Lynch, l’CH erse y, Charles H Haskell. W F Milliken. January 1. utd JB^f fl JL IT Rose Potatoes S TH E subscribers are now prepared to fill orders for IheRose Potato Irom the original grower at the following Prices: One lb 80 cents; 3 at $2.00, by mail, pjst paid by us. One Peck $5.00. Pric es given lor largor quantities on application. Goodrich, Harison and Gleason Potatoes ior seed,at fair prices, at ’ Portland Agricultural Ware-House nnd Meed Store. KENDALL <£ fTHITNEY nov 20-d&w2m Legislative Notice. jv OTJCE is hereby given that a petition signed by the subscribers and other citizens of Cape Eliza beth and Westbrook, in the County ot Cumberland, will be presented fo the next Legislature ot Maine, tor an act authorizing them to establish and lay out a new county road, commencing on the road leading ‘ °rtlaud to Saco, at a point near the Kerosene wpitSi at,.lal'e Elizabeth, thence extending m a nv.>r rectl011 crossing Long Creek, so called, and feadintb-v ^l,irk Trickey to the town road a westerly Creefcto Stroudwater, thence in rharles CCw oUJV acros* l«nd ofCbas. P. Trickey, road socairedyatn;lot°,is ™clwjr to the Paine lendi’ne from BuitoVn” t,le °r read leading irom uuxton thereto; thence on about the same westerly course across land ow™d bv l«aac Johnson and olhers, to the counts road teading 'r^ Sacrarappa to Stroudwater, being a oistim e h?a™“ about three miles and crossing at one water. mauk trickey, NA1H W. LOWE. Dec 17, 1868. dcl8dlaw3w Mrs. Belcher’s Wonderturc^T THIS remedy for female weaknesses, made from an Indian recipe, is entirely vegetable, and cures without supporters. Manufactured and sold by Mrs. Linus Belcher, Randolph, Ma*s. General Agents Geo. C. Goodwin & Co, Boston, Mass. Demas Barnes & Co, 21 Park Row, New York. B3T*H. H. Hay General Agent tor Maine. (&3F“For sale by druggists everywhere. May 15. weowly21 Roofing Slates. WELCH and Blk. Columbian and Penna. un fading Slate and Vermont Slate, at wholesale 1 prices, shipi»ed in any quantities. Freight about $1.50 per tou. A. WILBUR & CO., no24eod2m 112 Tremont st., Boston. SCHOOLS. Portland Academy ! No. 54 and 56 Middle St. THE Winter Term ot this Institution will com mence Tuesday, Dec 1st, and continue 42 weeks. Only limited number will ba received and particular attention given. Private instruction in the Lan guages on reasonable terms. The Evening School connected with the above is now open to the public. Terms ot Evening School $2.00 per mo. For further particulars address P. J. LARKAl>LE, A. B., Principal, no!8eodtt P. O. Box 933. EATON Family & Day School, Norridgewock, Maine. (Established 1856.) PUPILS are received into the family of the Prin cipals where they enjoy the privileges ol a pleas ant home. They have the special attention of the teachers who at all times gives tnem the aid and direct ion necessary to a rapid advancement in their studies, and exer cise such care and guardianship as they need. For particulars address BATON BROTHERS. April 4-eodtf Copartnership Notice ! TTTE, the undersigne i, hereby inlorm the public T » that we have this day formed a partnership under the firm name of FROST * JELI.ERSOIV, for the purpose ot carrjing on the Grain and Flour Business, and have taken Store No 1 Head of Long Wharf, recently occupied by Chase, Rogers & Hall, whereby rrompt attention to business we hope to obtain a liberal share ot patronage. AMARIAH FROST, „ , CYRUS F. JELLERSON. Portland, Jany 6, 1869. jan7tt D isNolution. THE copartnership heretofore existing under the firm name ol Cha*c & Thome* is by mutual consent this day dissolved. Either party can adjust the affairs ot the firm. JOHN CHASE, CHARLES D. THOMES. newIfirm. The undersigned have this day lormed a copart nership under the firm name of THOMS, CHASE & CO., in the Cooperate and Fi.h Baaiaea, and will occupy the old stand ot Chase & Thornes, Com mercial Wharf, where the former patrons or Chase & Thornes are invited. CHARLES D. THOMES. WILLIAM H. CHASE, _ . JOHN F. CHASE. Portland, Jan 1, 1868. Ja7 3w Copartnership Notice. WE, the undersigned, hive this day formed a partnership under the firm name of FRbEIUR ft RICHER, and have taken the new store, No BO Portland, cor nerot Green st. and will carry on the bus ness of Corn, Flour, Grocery and Conniry Produce. SAMUEL FREEMAN, „ , , F A. RICKER. Portland, Dec 28th, 1868. J7dlw Copartnership Notice. WE, the uuderslgned, have this day'formed a copartnership under the firm name of LIBBY & BROWN, Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in Boots and Leather, at 36 Union street. EDMUND LIBBY, _ .. _ _ LENDALL BROWN. Portland, January 1, 1869, j6dlw* Copartnership Notice. WE, the undersigned, have this day formed a partnership under the firm name ot C. P. KIMBALL & LARKIN, and will carry on the Carriage and Sleigk Business, at the old stand of C. P. KIMBALL, Piebie street. C. P. KIMBALL, Portland, Jan 1,1869. G~ LARQc4rt Dissolution of Copartnership! tf"ni??iI>™e>rtt0,i?re SIi8tin8 between A QUINN & DELANO, Is lbs day dissolved by mutual corsedt. James Quinn will settle tbe affairs ot the late firm, at the old place of bnsiuess, No. 6 Franklin Street. JAMES QUINN, , . FRED. H. DELANO. January 1, 1869. dim Copartnership Notice. AYTE. the undersigned, have this day form ad a ▼ ▼ partnership under the firm name of QUINN & COMPANY, and will carry on The Boiler Making Business in all its branches, at the old stand of QUINN & DELANO, NO. 6 FRANKLIN STREET. JAMES QUINN, T geo. ii. Coyle. January 1,1869. janldlm Dissolution of Copartnership. THE partnership heretofore existing under the firm name of Frost & Frye, is dissolved this day wUS?* con8en^: Either party is authorized to use the firm name in settling accounts. AMARIaH FROST, , , ADDISON FRYE. January 1,1869. janldlm Dissolution of Copartner ship MR. F. CRAWFORD retires from our Arm this daY- D. W. TRUK & CO, PARIS FLOURING CO. January 1, 1869._jaSdlw Dissolution of Copartnership THE Arm of ROBINSON & KNIGHT Is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All accounts will be settled with O’Neil W. Robinson, who will carry on the business at the old stand, and to whom all bills must be paid. Dec 24,18G8. dc28 law3w Dissolution ot Copartnership. THE partnership heretofore existing under the hrm name ot ROUNDS & CO., is this day dis soi ved by mutual consent. The business ot the Arm will be settled by either partner, at the old stand. GEO. H. ROUNDS, r C. F. ROUNDS. January 1,18C9. dtf Copartnership Notice. IX7E, the undersigned, have this day formed a n^TrxT^tS.c™ip„UI‘der the Arm name of SAMUEL ROUNDS & SONS, and will carry on the COAL AND WOOD BUSINESS, at the old stand, comer of Franklin Wharf and Com mercial Street. SAMUEL ROUNDS, GEO. H. ROUNDS, Portland, Jan. 1, 1869. du"^ F' lt0UNDS Copartnership Notice. WE, the undersigned, have this day formed a co partnei ship under the firm name of FRYE & LEIGHTON, and have taken the store and stock ot Frost & Frve, at No 100 Commercial Street, where we shall con tinue the business in Flour, Com, Meal, Oats, Feed, &c, &c. ADDISON FRYE, „ , , RANDALL LEIGHTON. Portland, January 1, 1669. JaStl Dissolution of Copartnership f^IIE copartnership heretofore existing between ADAMS & TARBOX, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. BENJAMIN ADAMS. T „ NEWAL TARBOX. Jan 9-dlw HURSELL’8 PURITY FOR THE HAIR! FOR SALE] BY ALL Druggists. PBICB 75 cents' No article was ever placed before e i ublic com posed of such perfect ingredients for promoting the growth of the Hair, or tor rendering it beautifully dark and glossy, causing it to curl or remain in any desired position. It prevents the hair having a harsh, wiry look. It prevents all irritated, itching scalp skin. It affords a beautifully rich lustre, Its effects will outlast any other preparation. State Assayer’s Office, \ 20 State st., Boston. ) Messrs. Hursell, Wood & Co., Gentlemen—I have analyzed Hursc-ll’s Purity for the Hair and am lhmiliar with the formula with which it is made. This preparation contains ingredients which give to it the desirable characters of a superior hair dres»> ing. Is free from Sulphur, Lead, Silver, Acids, Al kalies, and may be used with entire salety. ReBpectlully, (Signed) S. DANA HAYES, State Assayer for Massachusetts. jgp~Prepared only oy J. C. HURSELL & CO., No 5 Chatham Row, Boston. mav8TliSTu ly WSold by W, F. Phillips & Co., and H. H. Hay, Wholesale Druggists, Portland. EXTRA STEAM REFINED TRIPE! C. W. BELKNAP’S STm.'o1?-,,,??,",,"ed TKIPE takes the market: a net'witi??'J',,lle klnd ever ofiered in this aluxury^Miave'beentSfaoT1*?011 to mal;e TKIPE I do^beUevefno'one can prlaiu^a^itlcle that can equal my STEAM BKPinei, ° JK1PE It shall be my constant endeavor to mv.Tnisr a luxury, the verdict I leave to be rendered bvOie consumer. J N. B. Call for Belknap’s STEAM BEFINlrnt No other is fit for the Table. Portland, Oct 27,1868. dtt __REAL ESTATE. FOR SALE. TWO new first-class Brick Houses on Deering Place. Apply to GEORGE M. HARDING, Architect, dc28dtf Boyd Block. Farm for Sale. In part or whole, in Falmouth, on the line of the Grand Trunk Road, the farm known as the Che- ery Farm. Said Farm contains about eighty acres ol land well divided in wood, pasture and tillage. House contains eight rooms, with out-buildings For particulars enquire of DAVID CHENERY, near the Farm, or S. CHENERY, No II Exchange St, Portland, Me. nofrl lw&eod3w*tl T First Class Houses tor Sale. HE two brick houses with French roofs, just erected on Congress Street, near State. They are first class in every particular, being plumbed thoroughly for hot and cold water. The bathing and dining rooms are finished in Chestnut and black walnut. They have good yards, with a rear passage way accessible from Pine or Congress Streets. Ap ply to W. H. STEPHENSON, oct30dlt 2d National Bank. For Sale. " ANEW 2 tenement house well built, with all modern conveniences. Also barn and stable, corner North and Walnut Bts. Enquire ot T. CONDON, on the premises, Or at 53 Commtrcial St. junel3dtf Houses and Lands For Sale, Exchange or to Let! On Very Favorable Terms. ONE two story and attic house, sixteen rooms, large stable, &c., with much or little land, suit able tor private or public use. .Also one and a halt siory house, ten rooms, with barns ana more or less land. These houses are very pleasantly located on Oak Hill, in Scarboro, Maine, in fiill view of the ocean, White Mountains, and neighboring cities and towns. From three to five minutes'walk to ihe Oak Hill railroad station, filteen minutes by rail and thirty by county road to Po'tland. Also several hundred acres land, a part eligible for buiiding purposes, from five to seven miles from Portland. Part or all this property may be purchased at a great bargain. Most ot the purchase money may remain on mortgage a long time. Please apply to „ _ HENRY THORNTON, dec2W<&StfOak Hill, Maine. ~~GEO. B. DAVIS & CO., Real Estate Brokers, Commission Merchants and Auctioneers. Office No. 1, Moreton Block, Portland, He. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO THE SALE OP REAL ESTATE BY PRIVATE OR PUBLIC SALE WHEELER & WILSON Sewing Machine Agency / Office K*. 1 morion Block, PORTLAND, ME. THE great improvement known as the “Silent Feed,” renders it perfectly noiseless in action. Elegant in finish, simple in all its parts, not liable to get out oi order; adapted to every variety oi sewing, from the lightest muslins to the heaviest cloths.— Every one admils its superiority over all others as a Family Sewing Machine. Special Noiiee to Ladies of Portland, All purchasers ol the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine at this Agency, can have a lady teacher of thorough experience call at their residencee and give lessons of instruction, free of expert,e, Apply in person or by letter to 3 ~ . GE0* R- DAVIS & CO. December 9. dtf NOW FOR A Oay Sleigh Ride — IN — ROBINSON'S New & Elegant Sleigh Barge CHAMPION S After many years’ expet ience in the Livery busi ness, the subscriber bas decided that the Portland Public demands a nice Party Sleigh, and believing he has now got “that same” he bolds himself in readiness with Team* Mecoud to None, to wait upon parties at the shortest notice, on the most reasonable terms. E3T-A1S0 when the weather and sleighing is good, ^“Jneaday and Saturday P.M., he will Tour About Town,! Leaving his Headquarters, CITY HOTEiL, at 2 P. M. Fare per hour 25 cts; small children 15 cts. J. W. ROBINSON, Proprietor. ja2dtt every day is said to bring something new. It is nothing to advertise to sell goods at cost! A. A. GOULD, 111 Federal Street, Announces to liis numerous friends, and the public generally, he not only advertises but is selling for a limited time only his large and well selected stock of Boots, Shoes and Rubbers, At the true Inroice Prices, that is, he is selling his goods for precisely what he paid tor them. And if you really desire to buy at cost, now is your time. Don’t wait till the time is past hut walk in and make your selection, Ask for no discount. You may be sure that you are charg ed only cost prices. KS^Calt and see for yourself ana be satisfied. Remember the place A. A. GOULD, T HI Federal Sired. Jan 5-eod2w new jan 9 & 1G MADAM ARM AND, LATE °i New York, wishes to inform the ladies ot Portland that she has just opened her New Establishment, at. 109 Middle street, opposite the Falmouth Hotel, where she intends to car ry on the Newest and most Fashionable Styles in Dress & Oloak Making, ^i®Pes» ky keeping the Latest and most Fashion able Patterns always ou hand, and strict attention to business, to be able to suit her Customers, and re ceive the patronage of the Ladies ol Portland. &TApprentice wanted. | oct 28-d3m CAPT. GEO. E. BROWN, formerly of the Arm of B. F. Smith & Co., can be found at McKENNEY & DA VIS’ Photograph and Fine Art Gallery, 384 Congi*ess Street, OPPOSITE PREBLE HOUSE. | G3P" Fine Photographs and Porcelain Pictures tak en and finished in the best manner. Jan 4-dlw PEOPLE’S EXPRESS t Daily Line Between Boston, Portland and Lewiston ! For Forwarding Freight and Money and Making Collections at fair prices* OFFICES—8 and 10 Court Square, Boston, 93 Ex change St., Portland. j»< ,, c-a—1 Willcox & (Tibbs’ SILENT Family Sewing Machine I AT TI1E Howe Manufacturing and Improved Fam ily Sewing Machine Booms. Also, the Bickford Knitting Maohine, 53?“Active Agents Wanted in every town. 150 Exchange Portland, Me., and dc!7d&wtf 323 Washington St, Boston Mew Flour Store. Messrs. LATHAM, BUTLER & 00., HAVE TAKEN STORE No* 78 Commercial Street, (Thomas Block) and will keep constant ly on hand a large assortment of Choice Southern & Western Flour which they arc prepared to sell at ftom four (4) to eight (N) dollars below former pri.-es. The following brands may be iound in our Btock: Brilliant St* Louis, Gothic, Prairie Belle do Castle, Columbus St. do Quincy Basle, Queen of the West, Ravui’s Minnesota Bertschy’s Best, Glenwood, Ac., Ac. Purchasers will find it to their advantage to give ns a call betbre purchasing. LATHAM, BUTLER & CO. November 3, 1868. dtf BRICKS, THE Portland Steam Brick Company, are now ready to contract for Pressed, Faced, Bay Win dow and Common Brick, by the 1000 or 1 000,000. AUG. JL. LOVE JOY, Agent, Office Preble House, Portland, Me, Dec21-d6m OFFICE OF THE Amerioan Pish Hook and Needle Go. New Haven, CL, Aug. 15,1838. WE have appointed Messrs. JOB DAN A' BliAKE, ot Portland, Me., sole agents for the sale of our Hoobs for the city of Portland, who will be prepared to fill all orders for the trade on the same terms as by us. CHARLES A. CROSBY, Secretary. Sept 9-dtf _MISCELLANEOUS. Coe’s Cough Balsam l doe’s Cough Balsam I Coe’s Cough Balsam! Coe’s Cough Balsam! A SURE REMEDY FOR Colds, [Coughs, Croup, Influenza, Whooping Cough, AND WILL RELIEVE Consumptive Cough! For years it lias been a household medicine—and JJPlSS*8 tor the safety of their children .and all wh° suffer from any disease of the throat, chest and lungs, cannot afford to be without it. In addi tion to the ordmary four ounce so long in the mar aet, we now furnish our mammoth family size bot tles, which will, in common with the other size, he found at all Drug Stores. For Croup, The Balsam will be found invaluable, and may al ways be relied upon in the most extreme cases. Whooping Cough9 gThe testimony of all who have used it for this ter rible disease during the last ten years, is, that it in variably relieves and cures it. Sore ThroaU Keep your throat wet with the Balsam—taking lit tle and often—and you will very soou.find relief. Hard {Colds and Coughs Yield at 6nce to a steady use of this great remedy. It will succeed in giving relief when all other reme dies have failed. Soreness of the Throat. Chest and Lungs /J rE? n0t dt!'S' Pr0i;UIipg and immeaiafely taking Coe s Cough Bab am. when troubled with any ot the above named difficulties They are all premonitory symptomsi ol Consumption, and it not arrested, wifi *?,e?P you away int0 the valley et shadows from which none can ever return. In Consumption, many a care worn sufferer has found relief and to-day rejoices> that her life has been made easy and pro longed by the use ot Coe’s Cough Balsam. Amongst the many Testimonials in our possession, we have only room for the following: Messrs C. G. ClJK 5™ °*- 00117’,86C' GentlemenI feel It is a duty and pleasure to give you the benefit ol my experience in the use of coe s Cough Balsam. From taking a heavy cold. I down witn an attack ot congestion of the lungs, and continued to fail, under the best medical care, until 1 was given up, by competent medical authority, to die. There seemed nothing but stranguiation and death before me. I was told that further medical attendance and medicine was useless, and I was resigned to death, when a friend, who had been greatly benefited by using the Bal sa“- fought me a*bottle. This was alter! had done with the doctor and med’eine. I thought it helped me, and continued taking the medicine, and I con tinued to improve until my cough stopped, and mv lungs healed and got well. 1 used ten bottles. I re main. gents, with great respect, Your ob’t serv’t, JOHN WELLS, 209 Washington st, New Haven, Ct. In Short, The people know the article, and it needs no com ment from us. It is lor sale by every Druggist and Dealer in Medicines in the United States. BB the C. a. CLARK CO., Sole Proprietors, New Haven, Ct. Read, Read, Read t THE ATTENTION OF THE PEOPLE I IS CALLED TO THE World’s Great Remedy Coe’s Dyspepsia Cure. This preparation ia pronounced by Dyspeptics as the only known remedy that will surely cure that aggravating and fatal malady. For years it swept on in its tearful tide, carrying betore it to an un timely grave, its millions ot sufferers. Coe’s Dyspepsia Cure Has Come to the Rescue! Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Sick Head ache, Sourness or Acidity of Stomach, Rising of Food, {Flatulency,Lassitude, Weariness, Fnally terminating in Death, are as surely cured bv this potent remedy, as the patient takes it. Although but hve years before the people, what is the verdict ot the masses? Hear what LeBter Sexton, ot Mil waukee, says: Mr. Lester Sexton, a wholesale merchant of 30 years, in Milwau kee, one of the most reliable and careful men in the Sla(e,says under date, ,, Milwaukee, Wis., Jan 24, 1868. Messrs. C G. Clahk & Co, New Haven, Ct. Doth myself and wife have used Coe’s Dyspepsia Cure, and it has proved pebfectly satisfactory as a remedy. I have NO hesitation in saying that we have received great benefit irom its use. Very respectfully, LESTER SEXTON. ((A Great Blessing [From Rev. L. F. WARD, Avon, Loraine Co., O.] Messrs. Strong & Armstrong, Druggists, Cleve land, O. Gentlemen: It gives me great pleasure to slate that my wile, has derived great benefit from the use of Coe’s Dyspepsia Cure. She has been for a number ot years greatly troubled with Dyspepsia, accom panied with violent paroxysms of constipation, which so prostrated her that she was all the while, tor months unable to do any thing. She took at your instance, Coe’s Dyspepsia Cure, and has derived GREAT BENEFIT FROM IT, and is new com paratively well. She regards this medicine as a great blessing. Truly yours, Jan 13,1868. L. F. WARD. Clergymen. The Rev. ISAAC AIKEN, of Alleghany, Pa., testifies that it has cured him, alter all other reme dies had tailed. Druggists. Any Druggist in the country will tell you, it you take the trouble to enquire, that every one that buvs a bottle ot Coe’s Dyspepsia Cure from them, speaks in the most unqualified praise of its great medicinal virtues. Coe’s Dyspepsia Cure, Will also be tound Invaluable in all cases ol Diar rbcea, Dysentery, Colic, Summer Complaints, Gri ping, and in ifcct every disordered condition of tbe stomach. Sold by Druggists in city or country everywhere at 31 per bottle, or by application to THK C. G. CLARK CO., Sole Proprietors,New Haven. Ct. __ aug B-dlaw&weow SAFETY TO LIFE & PROPERTY. A NON-EXPLOSIVE LAMP. James M. Nichols 225 Pearl street, NEW YORK. Agent for the New Englaud and Middle States and # Canada. Thisfjamp cannot be Exploded by any thing abort of Nitro-Glyceriae, or Gunpowder. A’l kinds of Kerosine Lamps and Fixtures. Dec 23<wlm NOTICE is hereby given that the subscribers have been duly appointed and taken upon them selves the trust ot Administrators ot the estate of SILAS BLAKE, late ot Harrison, in the County ot Cumberland, deceased, and given bonds as the law directs. All persons having re mands upon the estate ot said deceased, are requir ed to exhibit the same; and all persons indebted to said estate are called upon to make payment to LUTHER C. BLAKE, 1 . . , F. H. WHITMAN, } Artru r8‘ Harrison, Dec. 15, 1868. dec22 3ww* 52 DItS. DVAJH S <£ 8 Tit O UT, DENTISTS, No. 8 Clapp’s Block, Congress St., (Between Preble and Elm,) PORTLAND. 13?” All operations warranted to give satisfaction. Ether administered when desired. wtfl Fresh Garden. Flower and Tree Seeds. TN7 HOLES ALE or retail list to any address ,7 * needs on commission. Agents Wanted. B. M. WATSON, Old Colony Nurseries and Seed Es tablishment, Plymouth, Mass Established 1812. Dec 23- wlw82 To Whom It may Concern! MY wife, Sarah T. Chadboum, having left my bed and board without my consent, this is to caution all persons against harboring or trusting her on my account as I shall pay no debts ot her con tracting after this date. M. CHADBOURN. Bsbago, Dec 28,1868. w8w!3* INSURANCE. Fire Insurance! Hide and Leather Ins. Co., OF BOSTON, MASS.] Capital $300,000. In.urc against all Lom or Damage by Fire at reasonable me* of Premium. JOHN W. CARTWRIGHT, Jr., President. OLIVER H. COLE, Secretary. NATU’L I\~DEE RING,, Agent at Portland, Come of Middle and Plum Streets. October 9,1868,_ octl0d3m Hew England Mutual Insurance Co., BOSTON. Purelg Mutual. Chartered 1835. Capital, $5,300,000. All Policies Non-Forfeiting !J Cash Dividends Paid Annually. Office 166 Fore St., Portland. John W. Munger & Son, Agents Oct 21-eod3m ANBURY Life Insurance Comp’y OFFICE 391 BROADWAY, New York, CAPITAL, ----- $150,000. LEMUEL BANGS, President, GEO. ELLIOTT Vice Pres, and Sec. EMORY M'CLINTOCK, Actuary THE Anbury claims to ofler unusual advantages the public in taking policies. • Commencing business only in April last, it has been received with so much favor that its assurances for the first six months amounted to over $1,000,000 and are rapidly increasing day by day. George L. Kimball, General Agent tar Maine. OOlce 88 Exchange Street, opposite Port* . land Saving. Bank, Portland. if ejerence oy permission: Gov. Joshua L. Chamberlain. Hon. James G. Blaine, Augusta. Hon. John J. Perry, Oxford. Board qf Local Reference in Portland: Hon. Israel Washburn, Jr., William Deering, Esq. Hon. Samuel K. Spring, Charles H. Breed, Esq., Hon. Augustus E. Stevens, J. S. Rieker, Esq. A GOOD INCOME can be secured in every county by earnest, active canvassing agents. Apply to the above agency. Dec 1, 1868. eod&w6m WORLD Mutual Life Ins. Co., 160 Broadway, Neiv York. Special Features. Mutual Premiums Lower than those of a majority ot the Life In surance Companies in the United States. Non-Participating Premiums, I.ower than those charged by any purely Lite Company in the World. Losses i Paid in 30 days after due notice and satilaetory proof of death. Thirty Days’ Grace Allowed in the payment of Renewal Premi ums. Dividends are Annual Alter two years, and increase with the age ot the Policy, All Policies Are non-forieitable. No Bestrictions As to travel. No Extra Charge For Army and Navy Officers. No Extra Charge For Rail Road Conductors. A. H0WARDFREN0H, Ag’t, Office lOO Exchange St., decldtf Opposite the Custom House. NOTICE is hereby given, that the subscriber has been duly appointed and taken upon him self the trust ot Administrator of the estate of NEWELL A. FOSTER, late of Portland, in the County ot Cumberland, deceased, and hat taken upon himselt that trust by giving bonds af the law directs. All persons having demands up on the estate of said deceased, are required to exh bii the same; and all persons indebted to said estate are called upon to make payment to NATHAN WEBB, Adm’r. Portland, Dec 23d, 1868.dc31d3w liowdoin College. Medical Department. THE 49th Annual Course of Lectures in the Med ical School of Maine, will commence February 18th, and continue 16 weeks. Faculty of Instruction : SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., President of the Col lege. J. S.|TENNEY, LL. D, Lecturer on Medical Juris prudence. I. T. DANA. M. D, Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine. W. C. ROBINSON, M. D. Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. C. L. FORD, M. D, Professor of Anatomy ant Physiology. C. F. BRACKETT, M. D. Professor ot Chemietrj and Pharmacy. W. W. GREENE, M. D, Professor^of Surgery. T. H. JEWETT, M. D, Professor ot Obstetrics and Diseases ot Women and Children. G. L. GOOD ALL, M. D, ^Professor of Analytlca Chemistry. J. B. SEVEY, M. D, Demonstrator of Anatomy. Circulars containing full information will be tor warded on application to the Secretary. C. F. BRACKETT, to. D., Sec’y. Brunswick, Me., Nov. 1868. w6wl EASE AND COMFORT! * uc DitsBiug ui reneci eigiu There is nothing so valuable as Perfect Sight, AND PERFECT SIGHT can only be obtained by using Perfect Spectacles 2 The difficulty of procuring which is well known. Maser*. LAZARUS & MORRIS, OtULlHTH AND OPTICIANS HARTFORD, CONK., Manufacture [of the Celebrated PERFECTED SPECTACLES have after years of experience, experiment and thi erection of costly machinery, been enabled to pro duce that Grand Desideratum, Perfect Spectacles. J« W. & IX* lMcDUFFEE, Mole Agouti for Portland* deadly LOOK, LOOK NOW IS ~THE TIME. SAVE YOUR MONEY. GO TO E. S. Worniell & Co’s allery 316 Congress\Street. Get Your Pictures Taken at Half Price Equally as Good in Oloudy Weather. Worniell & Co., determined to give all a chance t obtain a picture for themselves and friends,hav reduced the price ONE-HALF; and notwitlistand ing the Extremely Low Price, will turn ou none but good pictures. Having engaged the eminent Photographer, Prol IF ARMS of New York, and a corps 01 firet class Ar tists, they will satisfy all reasonable persons wit] better Pictures than ever belore made i« Portend. By Come One! Come all! and look at the prices 36 Tin Types,.25 cents. 9 Album Cards, - 75 *«< 4 Large Cards, - - - - - JJ <4 1 Large Picture for 8x10 Frame, - - And all others at equally low prices. OhLricturei copied and enlarged in the finest style ot the art. A splendid assortment ot Tin Type and Card Albums on hand, lor sale very low. Frames of all Sizes Cheaper than the Oheapes REMKMBEY the place, E. s. WOBMELL db CO., 316 CniHH .Street, Portland, Maine e. S. WoRMEtL, j. Packard, Jr* OctlMlw&wtl Notice. THE interest and responsibility of Mr. Ivory S Bean as a partner in our firm, ceases this day. L. C. BBIGGS & CO. Portland, Dec, 31,1863. jan4d3t DAILY PEESS. * PORTLAND. Monday Morning, January 11, 1869. Artificial Hck-Breeding. We hare heretofore published some articles upon this subject, but the recent meeting of the “Fishery Commissioners” in New York has given a fresh impetus to this enterprise, and facts have been stated which will interest many of our readers. These commissioners were appointed by the Legislatures cf several of our States. The following commissioners were present: Maine—Charles G. Atkins, Augusta; N. W. Foster, East Macliias. New Hampshire—H. A. Bellows, Concord; W. A. Sanborn, Weirs; Livingston Stone, Charleston. Vermont—Prof. A. D. Hagan, Proctorville; Charles Barrett, Grafton. Massachusetts—Alfred K. Field, Green field; T. Lyman, Brookline. Connecticut—H. Woodward, Middletown; James Uankin, Old Saybxook; James A. Bell, Lyme. Rhode Island—A Reed, Apponang; A. S. Gallup, Providence. New York—Seth Green, Mumford; Robert B. Roosevelt, New York; S. A. Ainsworth, Bloomfield; William A. Smith, Brooklyn; William Hodges, New York. Pennsylvania—James Worrall. Hamsbury; Thad. Norris, Philadelphia; Richard Haldi mand, Philadelphia. New Jersey—Benjamin P. Howell, Wood bury. On motion of Mr. Roosevelt, the chair was taken by Col. Worrall, of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Lyman acted as Secretary. The chairman remarked that he was but a tyro as a fish culturist. In his State some thing has been done. A commissioner has been appointed, and the lowest dam on the Susquehanna river broken and the fish intro duced into it The constructian of the dam was very simple, being nothing more than an inclined plane of one in fifteen rise. The fish weir itself is only three feet high, having a slope of forty-five feet. The result of the first year’s fishing was about 20,000 shad. In the second year there was a failure in all the streams. The Susquehanna has a coast line of 1,000 miles, and he was satisfied that fish could be brought along the entire coast. The Delaware had always been an important shad stream. Shad could be sent up as far as El mira. He said his State was full of trout streams. Mr. Norris, of Pennsylvania, spoke of the necessity of increasing the area of spawning ground. Dr. Howell said that the introduc tion of gill fishing had diminished the num bor of shad. The fisheries in the Delaware have been considered as belonging to the ri purian owners. The greatest number of shad ever taken at one haul in the Delaware was 10,800 in the year 1820. It seems from the remarks of Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Green, who visited the Southern States, that the shad fisheries there had been much depleted. In their visit to twenty fishing stations on the Hudson river, they found it so thoroughly de pleted that they could not obtain breeding fish, and only succeeded to a limited extent. It is proposed to stock many of the ponds and lakes with black bass. We have before stated that Maine has hundreds of excellent localities where these fish might ke bred to great advantage. They are very prolific and would afford much valuable food, as well as fine sport for the angler. No fish dies better game than the black bass. They are quick to bite, and tenacious of life. In Lake Ontario the commissioners found that the white fish are rapidly diminishing in numbers. In the upper lakes they afford much employment to the fishermen. They are not caught with the hook but in nets. We have seen the In dians take them in dip nets in St. Mary's riv er. They are valuable as food, many prefer ring them to the lake trout. In Massachusetts the question of fish cul. ture has become of great importance, the State having appropriated $30,000 last year for that purpose. Of this sum $4000 were ex pended in the hatching of shad. Black bass* lake trout and land-locked salmon have been introduced. Mr. Livingston of New Hamp shire, said that the Canadian government has given them permission to take 300 salmon from the waters of New Brunswick, and the next year they expect to bring 2,000,000 spawn into the State. No doubt this meet ing will be attended with good results. We trust our fanners who have good localities will improve them. They can make fish cul ture profitable, if they will only set them selves about it. And there would not only be profit but also pleasure in such an enter prise. Maine is marvelously provided with lakes, ponds, rivers and streams which may be stocked with valuable fish. And thou sands of our farmers have fine chances to make artificial fish ponds in which they can raise an abundance of trout, not only for their own tables but for the market. The ex pense would not be great. And after such work is done and they have had the profit and pleasure of taking the speckled trout from their own waters, they will greatly won der why .they had not done it before. Aohicoi.a. Latter from New York. The Holidays—New Year's Calls—TVtnter in Gotham—Balls and Dinners and Mrs. Caudle—Gaiety and Misery—Bast River Bridge—Mr. Bowles. New York, January 6,1869. To the Editor qf the Prett: Did you think I had forgotten you? Not a hit of it. But then you know we have had the holidays to think about, Christmas pie to eat and plums to find, if we could, and chief among them all in this Knickerbocker land, New Year’s calls to make. I smiled just a little as I read in your columns a day or two before New Year’s of the doleful doubts of the young men in Portland, whether to call or not to call, and it they did, whether the I fair ones would receive. No doubt on that score in this part of the world. Receive? Of course they would; every body does, or everybody’s wife and daughter, which is more to the purpose. Indian braves reckon thair prowess and worth by the number of scalps they have taken, belles of three seasons by the number of hearts they have subdued—I wo’nt say broken—and other people by the i number of calls they have had on New Year’s. It is a sort of genteel saturnalia. You are privileged to call on everybody you ever knew or saw—upon the piquant and sau i cy Ynaiden whom you met in the mountains ' last summer; upon the languishing fair one with whom you once had the pleasure of dancing the German; upon the dearest five i hundred triends of your cousin; and if that doesn’t suffice, upon whomsoever you wish. If you are an enterprising young man, you can make a hundred calls; if indefatigable, a hundred and fifty; if rather slow not more than sixty or seveaty, and so down. The amount of champagne that you can driDk depends upon the strength of your head and ] the pains which you take to sandwich it with strong coffee. And every man has his own limit as to his capacity lor boned turkey, oys i ters, cake and such trifles, though some that I know have not succeeded in equalizing their capacity yet,having “wery remarkable powers ' of suction” as tbe elder Mr. Weller used to - say. Rather a pleasant institution on the 1 whole, not to mention—what I will mention, • though—that it enables hard working, or in [ dolent young men to clear up long scores ol calls which they ought to have, but had not made. Perhaps it runs into excess a little now and then where the Maine Law is not i in full force, but then it comes only once in a year. I am too late to tell the Portland la dies how to receive in the highest, most re cherche— ‘bang up” the boys used to call it— style. Well, they can treasure this up for ' next year. Close your blinds, light the gas, powder your hair and put on your most stun ning dress and the thing is done, or overdone, • as you like it. WINTER IN NEW YORK is a disagreeable old ch ap, changeable as youth and crusty as old age. Here we have had quite a snow 6torm; it commenced New Year’s eve, spoiled the tempers of men and didn’t improve those of the women on that day; in a day or two more was powdered in to the dirtiest stuff you ever saw in the shape of snow, and now is thawing and making the streets worse than Down East roads in the spring time. Commend me to your hon est Maine winters—no nonsense about them but you always know where to find them. The season is a lively one. DINNERS, BALLS, ETC., are the order of the day, or rather of the night. I wonder if there is any part of the country so much giveu to public dinners as New York. There is always something to furnish the excuse for one. Our club has to give its annual dinner you know—and oar society of course—and then we must pay a compliment to the distinguished Mr. So-and So, and really, my dear Mrs. Caudle, I must leave you and the children for this night. Then Mrs. C. has to be pacified by being taken to the opera, or to the great ball of the season, and meanwhile the world revolves upon its axis each twenty four hours as usual, and several thousands of our brothers and sisters are shivering and starving around us. That they are shivering and starving is main ly their own fault, very likely, and it is not pleasant to feel when your pity has been aroused, and you have given your little alms to seeming misery, that you have probably been imposed upon. To be poor in a great city is terrible, and yet more of the shiftless and helpless drift here than anywhere else. Thousands upon thousands crowd into the city when the cold weather sets in, and work begins to grow scarce. The bright flame of the city attracts all the moths. Bad for them and bad lor the city. A mad world, my masters, indeed. But this is not a holiday strain, and I will change abruptly to speak of the EAST RIVER BRIDGE. i iniuK it oue were to ask me tne two thing* in New York most worth seeing, I should say Broadway and the Brooklyn Ferries. Over the latter a hundred thousand people pass ;ach day—perhaps more. Now the naviga tion in the winter isn’t aitogteher a pleasant thing. You may get blocked up in the ice— or a dense fog comes on and the boats go feel ing their way across the river, guided by the bells which are sounding at the terry ships, If you are nervous the thing is a little too exciting, and if you are in a hurry—well, what you’ll do depends a good deal upon your temperament and early training. Year after year the population of New York is flowing over into Brooklyn, and people iach winter talk of building a bridge to it. A. t last it is in a fair way of being built. The city of Brooklyn takes $3,000,000 of the stock and New York $1,500,000. The remaining three or four million of the stock will be taken by capitalists, and the Bridge ("with a capital B, if you please) is considered a certainty. It is to be a wire suspension bridge, with a span of nearly two thousand feet, and a hun dred or so above the water, so that the one at Niagara Falls will be a child’s toy com pared with it. Adding the approaches to the bridge it will be a mile in length. Th* promenade across this structure is expected to be oue of the greatest attractions of the city, rivaling Central Park and its Brooklyn sister, Prospect Park. I ought not to close my latter without re ferring to the ABREST or MB. BOWLES which created so great a sensation a week or two since. That it was a perversion of law to gratify private revenge is very true, but I can’t help saying that I think the affair has been exaggerated very much when it is represented as an infringement upon the lib erty of the press. Arrests cannot be made with half the facility in this city that they can be and are made in Maine. They are only allowed in cases of fraud and a few oth ers. Now men are are arrested on affidavits and locked up every day, without there being a general onslaught upon counsel and all the officers of the law. We are constantly com plaining that the rich and the strong break through the laws. Now, while I don’t defend the arrest of Mr. Bowles, I pretest that it is not so much more of an affair than would have been the seizure of some poor Bohemian without a tioopw f lriends to back him. Poncho. The Dabien Canal.—A well-informed writ er in the New York Times discusses at some length the merits and prospects of the Darien Ship Canal enterprise. It is a project in which the people of this country have always taken a lively interest, and one which they have considered themselves bound ultimately to accomplish, though often more pressing schemes of internal policy have combined with political difficulties and with the demands of the war to postpone it from time to time. Now that the objeot of Mr. Cushing's visit to Bogota is understood to be to obtain a conces sion of a right of way for the long talked of canal, public interest in the matter is again quickened. The writer in the Times sets forth what has already been done and what remains to do to open this grand conduit of commerce. He shows that the various and shifting lines proposed in former years have now been re duced to two routes, either of which is, by the testimony of able engineers, perfectly feasible. One of these routes runs from the Gulf of San Miguel to Caledonia Bay, the other from the Bayano Biver to the Gnlf of San Bias. The latter, whose total length is thirty miles, em braces the audacious feature of a tunnel through the Cordilleras (to which that under Mont Cents is trivial) seven miles long, 100 feet wide and 118 feet high, through which, the largest man-< f-war could be made to pass. A tidal lock and an aqueduct over the Mamo ni Biver are also embraced in the plan. The rude estimate of the total cost of construction is $65,000,000. It is to secure the privilege of further sur veys, and a final right of way, that Mr. Cush ing is now dispatched by the Department of Slate to New Granada. Should his mission be satisfactory, a strong company of New York capitalists and engineers stands ready to begin the grand enterprise of an interoceanic ship canal—an enterprise which, if brought to a successful issue, will stand unmatched even in modern engineering science. Varieties. —The town of Bristol, Tenn., is said to lie chief]; in Virginia, the main street being the dividing line between the two States. —The construction of the new building for Napoleon’s official paper in Paris is carried on at night by the use of the electric light. —The owl, says Josh Billings, is a wise bird, and hoots at most things. —The obelisk in the Place de la Concorde, in Paris, is decaying. It withstood the cli mate during thirty centuries in Egypt, whence it was transferred, but under the action of the weather in Paris it is already beginning to crumble and pulverize. A chemical liniment is proposed for the purpose of preserving it. —The Sunday School Union of the Metho dist churches in Hamilton county, Ohio, have adopted a rule that “any officer who shall so far forget himtelf and the influence of his ex ample, as to attend the theatre, negro minstrel exhibitions, circuses, dances or dancing par ties, or other places of sinful amusement, shall forfeit his position, and cease to be a member." —The report of our general land office is to be printed in several languages and distrib uted in Europe to induce emigration. —A church in Boston gave a copy of the Bible to each of its baptized children, on Chistmas day. Are not the unbaptized worth saving? —A Chicago genius has invented a one wheeled velocipede. —The streets of New York must bo in a pleasant condition. The papers of that city coutain accounts et luckless little children, sent of errands by their mothers, falling into the gutters and being drowned, —The tendency of civilization is evidently toward lessening the number of hours of study. An English paper says: “In Germany an ex periment is being made upon lads at school, with the object of discovering whether more study cannot be got out of, and more learning driven into them, by keeping them hard at it, as a boy would say, in the morning, and allow ing them to devote the whole afternoon to play.” —There is another man, outside of Port land, who expects a flood. He lives in Tenne see, where he is building a six story ark, with apartments for all the animals, 'snakes except ed.