The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-12-07
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.
I HBayaraTayler new lecture this whit.

4 Some one has discovered that the golden
mean signifies rich man who is too mean to
employ his gold for the good of his race.
Bahia, thecity in Brazil in whose harbor
the Florida was seized. is .pronounced Babe
ali, with the accent ON the second syllable.
gB-The barn Of Mr. Asa Gunnison, in Elliot.
was burned on Friday night last with all its
contents.
! E-An Irishman illustrating the horrors Of
solitary confinement, stated that out of one hum
dred persons sentenced TO endure this punish
BA little daughter of Mr.. James Day of
Tuftonboro', N. H., was scalded SO badly by
falling backward into pail of hot water, on the
10Th ult., that she survived but fifteen hours.
70 Where man is SO saving that he goes
INTO his garden to clean his nails lest he should
lose some of his own rightful soil, we think he
may be considered stingy. g.as ~ ss'afi. s.sl
80 "A western baker has for . sign -ssPeo-
ple's gitals cooked y, Those who live on the
cooked yitals of the people ought to exhibit q
great deal of vitality. salesa gao
~ An editor gives an account of his Office
having been haunted by lounger. who had
sat so long that his shadow was found fixed on
the wall s ~
2 EThe Mobile Tribune says there are men
under arms in Mobile with heads as gray as
badgers, men who have not only lost sons in
battle, but grandsons. .a4sa,4a -
% AS a matter-of-fact preacher was coming
down the street the other day. gentlemen ask
h all L. G.
the Sheriff. office3' ssYes sir, - was the reply
every time you earn five dollars, spend ten. y
% In Oregon distances are reckoned by the
time it will take to reach them. Ask an Asto-
rian how far it is to Clatsup and hetwill say
ssabout two hours. In someloealities ssdrinks''
is substituted for shours.'' ~xxrgv1
Gr The article in yesterday Press headed
"False Prophets" by blunder in making up
the form, was put in before itw finished and
without proof reading. twill appear in full
Tomorrow III Z M1AFA ! sA1S
RThe Free Will Baptist church at Winnie
gence win bededicated the 18th inst, and not
the 25th as enormously stated yesterday The
pastor is Rev Almon Libby, and not Geo. AL
mon. as the laundering types had it.
@ B The Milwaukee SentiasI states that in
round numbers the aggregate Union majority in
Wisconsin on the home vote is 7,5OO On the
soldiers vote it is over ,50O-n all little over
1900 ~ a4is
R Walter Q. Brown, formerly of this city,
has been appointed Secretary to the United
States Consul at Matamoras Mr.. Brown was
in Texas at the breaking out of the rebellion,
and suffered severely for the devotion for the
Union.-[ Bangor Wing.
YThe New Bedford Mercury says that on
Monday, 9th ult., two right whales were seen
on the north side Of Nantucket. moving lazily
about inside the bar. They were pursued but
escaped. One Of them was estimated at 20 or
80 barrels, worth 81 900. s...e "
% Recent Intelligence from Scotland announ-
ces the death of Mr.. ]. C. McCulloch, we'll
known as the author of Dictionary of Com
merce and Commercial Navigation, . and a
"Dictionaryof Geography He was seventy
five years old.
z 90 That brilliant Dutchman who presides
over the municipal government of New York
city proposes that reward shall be offered for
the detection of the incendiaries of New York,
provided that they shall be convicted by civil
courts, and not by coqrt-martial -
CD Hon. T. a. D. Fessenden. one Of the Pres
idential Electors from this state, is absent from
home on visit to New Orleans, SO the college
at its meeting at Augusta was called upon, in
pursuance Of the law in such cases to fill the
vacancy before proceeding to vote for president
and Vice President. i g
Success in business courts no idler or
sleepy head. Like COY maiden it is to be won
only by careful wooing, and like a true woman
it demands not a. divided but whole heart
The man who does not put his heart into his
business, who does not go to work in earnest,
can have no reasonable hope of success
e Contributions are being taken in England
to aid Father Chiniquy, the converted Catholic
priest. Mr. Chiniquy, in q letter to the British
Standard, says there has not been single ses-
sion of the civil courts in Chankakee county. H.
linois, before which he has pot bsen SUMMONED
on criminal ahargs, and every time he has been
acquitted. His Roman Catholic prosecutors are
unfelenting, and he is now reduced to the very
last straits. s "a
We understand that horse belonging to
Maj: Stackpole and another to Mr.. Gardner of
Durham, were stabbed by some villain or villains
at South West BEND Village, Thursday evening,
the former so badly that he soon died and the
latter SO that he will not probably recover.
One or the horses was hitcbed to shed and the
other IN front Of the nesting house, while
their owners were attending one of a series Of
revival meetings which are being held in that
village Lewiston Journal.
B Paris and London papers are engaged in
eondamning the seizure of the Florida. We
dom see as it is any of their business, or that
any other power, except Brazil, has right
to NEEDLE with the affair. 1be time is not far
distant, we hope, when Brother Jonathan will
feel able to propose and to back up some amend
ments to International law, or even to enunciate
new laws, consistent with Right and the punish
ment of Wrong. That time will come, and God
speed its coming N
80 The Danvers Wizard invites certain per-
sons to give wide berth to the popular lectures
to be delivered in that town. Among others
who are thus invited, is the man who weal s
creaking boots, the lady who faints, the boy who
brings peanuts, the girl who giggles, the man
who takes his seat in the aisle before the regular
seats have beea filed, the girl who losses con-
fectionery about the hall. the man who goes out
before the lecture is ended the boy and girl that
are under fifteen years Of age, and the man who
always applauds in the wrong place.
u The New York World has at last arrived
at the conclusion that s'the war ought to be
fought as if England or France were our oppo-
nent.' The "erring sister" doctrine. as well as
Sour southern brethren dodge seems to have
died out. Even copperheads are beginning to
learn that it is no more pleasant to have ones
house burnt, his vessel sunk, his friend muir
dered or bullet put through his own head by
. southern brother than by a stranger or an
alien. ..ss
HThose who talk Of changing the constitu-
ton SO as 10 elect President by direct vote Of
the people, seem to lose sight Of the fact that the
President is the representative of the States, as
organic bodies, rather than of the people in their
individual capacity. They also lose sight ofthe
fact that purposely the small states are given a
larger proportionate voice than the larger states