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MAINE. 



MARYLAND. 



for intoxicating liquors, 279 of which have been 

 successful, and 1,670 gallons obtained, valued at 

 $5,323. Other offences to the number of 93 of 

 different kinds have been successfully prosecut- 

 ed. The expense of maintaining the constabu- 

 lary force was $17,310.24. From the expen- 

 ditures should be deducted the amount already- 

 paid for fines, the value of liquors seized, and 

 the fines that probably will be paid on final ac- 

 tion of the appealed cases, with the saving to 

 the State of the deputies' taxable costs, and the 

 balance will not be more than $8,000 against the 

 State police to December, 1867. 



The great and marked success that has at- 

 tended the enforcement of the prohibitory laws 

 of the State against the sale of intoxicating 

 drinks shows not only the efficiency of the laws, 

 but the marked faithfulness of the small police 

 force appointed to execute them. There are 

 but few if any open liquor-shops in the State. 



It is estimated, on reliable authority, that in 

 1866 more than one and a half million of dol- 

 lars were paid for liquors brought into this 

 State, while in 1867 not one-tenth of that 

 amount was brought into Maine. Successful 

 efforts have been made for collecting and pub- 

 lishing the early documentory history of Maine. 

 Under the auspices of the Historical Society 

 and the Legislature, Rev. Dr. Woods was com- 

 missioned to examine the public archives of 

 England, France, Spain, and Venice, for origi- 

 nal manuscript records pertaining to the discov- 

 ery and early occupation of this portion of the 

 New World. Dr. Woods met with every cour- 

 tesy and coooperation on the part of the custo- 

 dians of these archives, and brought to light a 

 large amount of valuable material. This will 

 be embraced in a volume illustrating the 

 progress of discovery prior to the year 1600, 

 and culminating in the occupation of the ground 

 under the charter of 1606, which was the dawn 

 of colonization in North America. The vol- 

 ume will appear in the course of the ensuing 

 year. 



Shipbuilding, one of the most important in- 

 terests of the State, was greatly depressed dur- 

 ing the year, owing to national rather than 

 local causes. Agriculture hardly receives the 

 attention its importance demands, and the 

 amount of its products by no means meets the 

 wants for home consumption, though there is 

 an abundance of good laud that will amply re- 

 pay reasonable tillage. 



The following extract from the Governor's 

 message exhibits the present condition of the 

 farming interest of the State: "With our 

 population, now probably upward of 650,000, 

 we need at least as many barrels of flour 

 yearly, which at $15 the average price for 

 the last year amounts to $9,750,000. This 

 is nearly all imported, and probably no one arti- 

 cle of export equals this in value. Here cer- 

 tainly is sufficient demand. The only question is, 

 can wheat be profitably raised in Maine ? The 

 soil and climate are no bar. In the Provinces 

 north and east of us great attention is paid to 



wheat-raising, and with good results. Where it 

 has been skilfully tried in our State, there has 

 been no failure. It has been proposed to offer 

 a bounty on the raising of wheat in this State 

 for the next three years. Whether that is done 

 or not, the intelligent farmer who devotes him- 

 self to this will find a bounty in his immediate 

 returns. With our 70,000 farms, an average of 

 four acres would easily produce, at 15 bushels to 

 the acre, upward of 4,000,000 bushels' of 

 wheat a year, and this experiment is worthy of 

 being tried. It will be useless to hope that even 

 with the increased facilities for transportation 

 which we anticipate, breadstuffs will be greatly 

 lower in price." 



The Legislature is divided politically as fol- 

 lows : viz.. Senate Republicans 25 ; Demo- 

 crats 3. House Republicans 106 ; Democrats 

 45. 



MANZANO, JOAQTJIN DEL MANZANO T, a 

 Spanish soldier, at his death, Marshal, Gov- 

 ernor, and Captain-General of the Island of 

 Cuba, born in Albuquerque, in the province of 

 Estremadura, Spain, March 10, 1805 ; died in 

 Havana, Cuba, September 24, 1867. In 1827 

 he became a cadet of the first company of the 

 second battalion of the Grenadiers of the Royal 

 Guards. From 1833 to 1841 he rose through 

 all the grades to the rank of colonel, taking an 

 active part in eighteen engagements. In 1848, 

 being a brigadier-general, he was made com- 

 mander-general -of Verga. June 16, 1849, he 

 was made full marshal, and appointed com- 

 mander-general of Tarragona. He was mili- 

 tary and political governor of the department 

 of Santiago de Cuba in 1852, and was second 

 in command of the Island of Cuba from 1854 

 to 1859. Returning to Spain, he was made 

 captain-general of the Vascongadas Provinces, 

 and during the Morocco war occupied the same 

 rank in that part of Aragon. In the latter part 

 of the year 1863 he was made lieutenant-gen- 

 eral, and in 1865 appointed captain-general of 

 Porto Rico, as also of the province of Burgos, 

 neither of which he accepted. In 1866 he be- 

 came captain-general of Valencia, and a few 

 months after was appointed captain-general of 

 the Island of Cuba. Though serving his gov- 

 ernment as captain-general of the island for 

 but ten months, his name is connected with 

 many charities ; and he was especially inter- 

 ested and active in founding a lying-in hospital, 

 or house of maternity, and the public charity 

 hospitals at San Felipe and Santiago. He died- 

 of typhoid fever, and his death caused deep and 

 genuine sorrow among the citizens of Cuba. 



MARYLAND. The Maryland Legislature 

 assembled at Annapolis on the 2d of January, 

 and continued in session until the 23d of March. 

 One of the first duties devolving upon this 

 body was the choice of a United States Sena- 

 ator. The prominent candidate for that posi- 

 tion was Thomas Swan, at that time Governor 

 of the State, but the law requiring that one of 

 the Senators in Congress should be chosen from 

 the section of the State known as the Eastern 



