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Show GEXCRAL. A Terrible Fire. Calais. Maine. Aug. 27. A fire broke out this afternoon in the rear of Samuel Ridout's livery stable. The stable was instantly destroyed, together with the stores occupied by B'iake i Tavlor. W. Todd, Jr., M. Svlvester, A. E. Neill. Jas. Perkins. Miss Hiil, Boardman Rro's. S. S. King & Sons, 'W. P. Harrison. Wadsworth & Kelly, Xickerson & Ridout, Horton Bro's, G. W. Xve, Daniel Hill, C. W. Nye, C. 'Waite & Co., Bailey's photograph room, the Advertiser Ad-vertiser office, Wadsworth & Kel-ley's Kel-ley's grist mill, Benjamin Hutchin's sail loft. Hitchcock & Cone's livery stable, Peabody, McDonald & Cos machine shop, the Hamilton foundry and St. Croix hall, with the city rooms and post office below, many dwellings and tenement houses, a lars:e quantity of lumber and much wharf property: also thirteen vessels laying at the wharves, Xickerson & Ridout's, and W. Hind's and Robertson's ship yards, three vessrls on the stocks, the marine railway and dry dock, and the Congregational Con-gregational vestry aud Masonic hall. Much property was burned after removal from the stores and houses. There is no estimate of the loss. Xavn.1 Activity. Washington. Auj. 29. Great activity activ-ity prevails a' all the navy yards. At Boston the Wabash, Ticundcrngo and JMngara are bein; thoroughly overhauled over-hauled and repaired. The Narrarjan-sett Narrarjan-sett will soon be furnished with new machinery, and the Wyoming aud Monongohehi will be soon pla :ed upon the docks at New York. The new machinery and boilers of the- Wachn-setts, Wachn-setts, tSovinct, Minnesota jnd Tennessee will soon be put in and other needed repairs do'je. At Philadelphia the Poicho'inn and Iromn's are being thoroughly oveihaulcd, while a complete com-plete set of machinery and boilers will be placed in the Qninnetough at that yard. The officers of those States, who.-e elections come off in October, have made arrangements with the railroads running from this city, whereby Government Gov-ernment clerks may be got home to vote by paying half fare. Political Newspaper Enterprise. Chicago, 29 The Tribune's New Y'ork special says John Morrissey, Sheriff 0 Brien and Congressman Fox, the leaders of the old democracy, have raised a fund of $100. WO to start a newspaper organ. It is to bo called the Free 1'ress, and will make its first appearance on W ednesday next as an evening paper. Its policy will be deadly hostility to Governor Hoffman, and it will d:vote itself energetically to the exjjoxr of the corruption of Tammany. Tam-many. There is much alarm among the Tammany Democrats and their Republican allies. All the leading New York papers o 1 both parties ire subsidized by Tammany ; over two millions of dollars per annum, ia the shape of advertizing, is bestowed npon the city press to insure silence about the Tammany frauds, most of the Republican Re-publican press being in the ring. T: ci.:;;:-r.:n v;-g:-,. r N'-v..cn tak" their -.' - r b t: :.. -tree; -rrii.Li- r- |