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^taxrfe anil |o ft g tin H a j. £lje lurklanfo fettle, PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, BY Haring every facility, in PresseB, Type and other material, and the experience oi many years in the WORTMAN & PORTER, business, we are prepared to execute, in superior style, and with despatch, every description oi Job Office, No. 5 Custom-House Block. Work, such as Catalogues, By-Laws, Town Reports, TERMS: I f paid strictly in advance—per annum, $2,00 Ciroulars, Bill-Heads, Blanks, If payment is delayed 6 months 11 not paid till the close of the year, *.,50 CARDS, PROGRAMMES, LABELS CF No paper will be discontinued until ALL ar rearages are paid, unless at the option of the pub Hand Bill., Shoe Bill*, Paster*, h e . lishers. , , _ Particular attention paid to XT- Single copies five oents—for sale at the office and at the bookstores. sEJ All letters and communications must be ad VOL. 23. ROCKLAND, MAINE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1868. NO- 6. PRINTING IN COLORS. dressed to the Publishers. BRONZING, h e . E. E. WORTMAN, JOHN B. PORTER. Passengers in a runaway train, on a always holding on to the brass rod, and of that dear old critter, that I couldn’t prisoners were leaving for the North, devolved the reasons, which seemed to ately returned. Paul was indeed the fa ‘At last I have it! Oh, Paul, your tatal black and moonless nigbt, and with in another moment, was moving the I j^lp taking on and crying about it right on transports, it was announced that him unanswerable, in favor of such a vorite of the Fates. skill! but it shall never tell tales of me neither engine-driver or guard to help handle to shut off the steam previous to i meeting. General Buckner’s steamer was ready. course. Grant however believed that a Camilla was only seventeen, and old now—never! Has it told any? Does he retrograde movement, even if temporary, Vraine, though pleased with the match, suspect? He must never know. What us I applying the brake. I knew enough of * His owu brigade of troops was aboard, J ° ° Grant and HidlCampaignt. would be disastrous to the country, which exercised his parental authority gently if he has, would he tell? I will not let To W ays to L ive oil Earth. The Middlesham and Dillmouth rail locomotives to prevent my doing this and he invited Grant to go with him was in no temper to endure another re but firmly, and postponed the wedding even him tell tales of me, ranch less this way was about twenty-two miles long, too quickly, and I did not draw up un and look at his soldiers, of whom he for a year, during which time he proposed There are two ways to live on earth— We lay before our readers to-day verse; he was determined to take no step bit of painted convas. If he did not see Two ways to judge—to act—to view; and there were four intermediate sta til we reached Ifcorab station. Arrived was proud. Grant went with him and backward and so declared. to make a trip to Europe with his daugh it, he was blind. There it is. I can see For all things here have double birth— tions—Acridge, Durton, Felton and If- there, I resigned mv charge to the sta- some extracts from the first volume of the rebel prisoners crowded around their THE CAMPAIGN BEHIND VICKSRURG. ter. it! I saw it then, but I did not know A right and wroug—a false a true! ‘When they returned, if both were ol what it was, I know now, but nobody else comhe, between the two termini. Two j tion-master, and after securing the few Colonel Badeau’s “ Military Life of Gen captor, curiously but respectfully. The campaign in the rear of Vicksburg Buckner spoke to them, and told them the same mind’ (you know what prudent ever shall. It is my own secret and I Give uie the home where kindness seeks of these stations were passed, and \*e things I had left behind me in the coin- eral Grant,” which brings the narrative was remarkable, not only lor the rapidity fathers are apt to say) and the young shall keep it. Fire does not tell any tales. To make that sweet which seemeth small; that General Grant had behaved with with which it was executed and the suc Where every lip in fondnees speaks, had Jthen run about half of the dis- partinent I made ray escape to the book- down to March, 1801, when the latter lovers, alter some chafing and a good She stirred up the glowiug eoals with And every mind has care for all. tance. We had been fifteen minutes iu ing-offiee as fast as I could ; for the kindness and magnanimity, and bade cess which attended its movements, hut many vows of constancy, dutifully sub nervous energy for a moment, and then, doing-one-half, and would most proha- hand-shakings, ‘God bless you’s 1’ and received from President Lincoln his them remember this if ever the fortune for the originality of its conceptions, both mitted. A year was an age to look for the picture, with its slight and graceful Whose inmates live in glad exchange bly do the rest of the journey in less other expressions of thanks from the commission of -Lieutenant-General.— of war allowed them to show him, or in their general plan and in detail. * * ward to, but it would soon pass away. frame, was laid, face downward, upon Of pleasures, free from vain expense; Grant’s march through the forest till he After all, what was one year to a love Whose thought bevoud their means ne’re range; time than that. people whom I had been instrumental The author was for several years of the any of liis soldiers, the same treat passed below Vicksburg, his crossing ihe the consuming mass. For a few moments Nor wise denials give offence. A miserably short time to save so in saving from a terrible catastrophe, ment which they received. like theirs? it smoked, crackled, and blazed, then military family of General Grant. almost impassable Mississippi, an enter Much as Paul admired the wondrous nothing but ashes remained of the evi Who in a neighbor’s fortune find many lives; but something must bo were proving too mueli for me, and I prise deemed so difficult that the rebels GRANT AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE On the afternoon of the desperate beauty of his betrothed, he had never es dence of the weird skill of Paul Maynard. No wish—no impulse—to complain; done. I was an employee of the ira- was glad to get away from it. There hardly considered it in their arrange sayed to protray it Not but he had Who feels not—never felt—the mind WAR. first day’s battle at Pittsburg Landing, ments for defence, his throwing his col ‘Sale now!’ she muttered, almost fierce To envy yet another’s gain mense railway concern, of which the was something so terribly in earnest often thought of doing so, but whenever ly, ‘tire tells no tales;’ and again she sat Middlesham and Dillmouth was but a and sincere about it, that I was more He was of simple habits and tastes, Gen. Buell reached the front in advance umns into the wilderness in the rear of he had halt determined to put his thought the city, and suddenly appearing before down before the fire with a somewhat Who dream not of the mocking tide branch. I have used the sounding word frightened by it than I had been by any without influence, and unambitious.— of his troops, who were still on the in practice an indefinable something kept piieter expression upon her face, and now Ambition’s foiled endeavor meets— Johnston and beating him in detail, then him back. Something nearly akin to su The bitter pangs of wounded pride, employee, but the simple fact was that part of my perilous adventure. Having never been brought in contact other side of the river. driving Pemberton into Vicksburg, and and then breathing long sighs of relief, Nor fallen Power that shuns the streets. I was a relief clerk, and that I was at Very little more need be said. A with men of eminence, he had no per perstition seems to be a necessary partot as if she had beeu delivered from soma •I HAVEN T DESPAIRED OF WHIPPING striking for a new base on the Yazoo— such a nature as Paul’s,and iu him it was that very time ou my way to Ifcombe message was immediately sent to the sonal knowledge of great affairs.— were all due to the eonelusioii he arrived great peril. Though fate deny it.- glitteringstore, > THEM YET.’ stronger than usual. Perhaps, if she could have looked iu Love’s wealth is still the wealth to choose; to take the place of the station-master, authorities at Middlesham. apprising He had never commanded more than at, that the rules of strategy laid down in Now, however, that Camilla was going upon Paul in his studio that afternoon For all that man can purchase more who was then seriously ill aud unable them of our safe arrival at Ifcorab, and ] a company of soldiers, and although All around the Landing lay the cra the book, and applicable in a campaign away, now that he could no longer feast Are sands, it is no loss to lose! she might not have been as well satisfied.