The Portland daily press., 1863-01-17

rB-The first two bales OF cotton have lately
been shipped from Honduras to New York.
1t is of excellent quality, but the price is very
high, though an improved system of labor and
culture will lessen the price hereafter Two
Yankees from Boston have settled in that
country, and are going into the cultivation of
cotton.
Gy-We infer from an extract in the Argus,
taken in connection with the manner in which
it is used that the editor of that paper regards
the struggle in which our country is engaged
to put down rebellion and to maintain its
rightful authority, as "a ,cdr Of aggression by
one section Of the country upon the other"
sg- The recent election for U. S. Senator
in the Pennsylvania Legislature, was made
under the intimidation of mob sent to Har-
risburg in special trains by the Democratic
leaders. There they roamed around the town,
slept on chairs and benches, and gave their
time to dissipation and revelry. The Press
says the House and Senate met surrounded
by mob, and legislated under the knives and
pistols of lawless men,
ErThe prospectus of the Advertiser says /:
sour Saturdays daily will contain a large
amount Of Literary matter suited to the Fam
lily circle, to supply the rant Of a Sunday
paper" The Mirror and Advocate may "shut
up shop" and save the expense of continued
publication. The Saturdays Advertiser will
supply their places. The editors propose one
day in each week TO serve the Lord, hoping
thereby, probably, to gain absolution for hav-
ing the other five days served the Devil
sB- At temperance meeting in Washing
ton, Senator Wiley, gave it as his opinion that
Virginia never would have passed the seces-
sion ordinance had whiskey been kept out of
the convention, that a bowling drunken mob,
with bowie knife in hand) outside, and bad
whiskey inside OF the Capitol at Richmond
carried the good old State of Virginia out of
the Union, and that the fires of secession are
kept burning now in the South to a great
extent by liquor"
sB-Dana Stone was tried in the Cambridge,
Mass, Police Court, Wednesday, and held in
the sum of $400 for trial at the Superior Court
The defendant produced certificates showing
that he had paid $40 to the United States Gov
eminent for the privilege of selling sprituous
liquors, and the superiority of the State over
the National law will probably be contested in
the Supreme Court of that State We have
heard it intimated that the same question
would be brought before our Supreme Court.
sEThe Machias Union makes character
istic fling at what it classically styles "negro
jink" in this city, and those who attended it.
The Union, in its expressed contempt for the
negroes, reminds us of fellow we once saw
in the city lookup at Bath, for being engaged
in drunken row. We were authorized to
give him his choice between going to Jail for
thirty days, and shipping before the mast on
board a merchat ship then ready for sea. With
an expression of ineffible contempt he excam-
ed, 'Do you think Iwoud associate with lot
of dirty sailors in a forecdstle ~ 1t is doubt
full if the editor of the Machias paper, unless
he has recently mended his manners, could
have gained admission to that "negro link -
for only free white people and coiored persons
were granted that privilege. White negroes
the recent slaves of Buchanan-however good
looking, could not come in.