The Portland daily press., 1865-10-21

b@Aa old rebal 4uartertnaster who impor2
tuned the president for a pardon, felt good
when Mr.. johnson said to Iim-"My venerable
friend if you think that yotr Department. Of the
rebellion endangered the Union cause, FOUR in
nocence is pardon in itself.s IL
The London 1gmessays there is no doubt
of the existence Of yellow fever at Swansea,
England. Some weeks ago q bark named the
Hecla arrived at that port from Cuba with a
case of fever on board, The man who vas srf-
fering from it died the day after the arrival of
the ship. Some precautions were taken, but
the ship was not removed from,ths dock Soon
after, however, adeath occurred in the town,
which the medical men agreed in ascribing to
yellow fever, and ten or twelve deathsfrorn the
| same cause followeds4 pa W as 4
BB A correspondent of the Eoeaiag Post
writes The outrage and misery of fashion in
| the mountains burst upon me to the full at
Echo Lake. A few moments after our arrival,
just as we were subdued and overawed by the
depths of purple shadow, and were listening for
the ringing steps of the ghosts ofthe horn notes,
stealing off through the stony labyrinths Of La
fayette, there came down with d rustic and a
a giggle, two ereatufes4 yemen, we must say,
for purposes Of classifcation-fne and shining
in Arnold's rarest shade of light gray silk,
trimmed by Virefolet, with rose and gum and
silver! Heavens how they looked And
what noise they made The males escort
ing them (of the kind and make which always
hunt in this sort Of couples y were quieter, it
must be owned, but no less out of place. q But
the women Nothing save having looked
from them to the lake, and from the lake to
them, patting and tipping about, with their
eyes on their boots and their hands holding up
their gray silk, could ever do justice to their
absurdity."
Rebel claimants for cotton who brought
suit in the United States Circuit Court at st.
Louis, torecover five hundred and seventy-t7o
bales, were honsuited last week on the ground
that the cotton was lawfully seized during the
war as the property of the public enemy. II
THE wife of Mr.. D. A. Parker, Of COTS
town, n, H., committed suicide by drowning in
the Piscataquog river, a few rods from her res
idence, about o'clock Tuesday afternoon. She
had been in jill health, for some two or three
years past
BB Last Thursday was the anniversary of
the surrender of Lord Gornwallis, one of the
most important events Of the American Revo-
luton. A a&3&9Ak "a
% Commander Geo. H. Prebie hasSbeen
ordered to the Charlestown Navy Yard, as an
Inspector. s9SS4A'39 f.
% Commander William F. Spicer has been
orderedto the Kittery Yard on special and
temporary duty. 3 srssl.ys
BB The Naval General Courts Martial at
Charlestown, over which Commodore Pope pre-
sided, has been dissolved -s@ Ah
EA .woollen factory on a magnificent
scale is to be erected in Chicago, with a work
ing capitalof a million Of dollars, and capao-
ity which will make it equal to a competition
with any other mill in the country.
B3 1t is stated that Mr.. w. L. Garrison will
suspend the Liberator and sail for Europe in.
January. a o;f,-9
20 Thu Mr. Mccormick who died lately at
Cincinnati was not the inventor of the reaper,
but his father.
Dixon, who is travelling in the South,
says in the Boston Adgertiser, "Spindling of
legs, round Of shoulders sunken of chest,
STOPPING of posture, narrow of face, retreating
of forehead, thin of nose, small of chin, 1argsaf
mouth-this is the native North Carolnian Is
one sees him outside the cities and large
towns
EB Mayor Gunther, that precious copper
head specimen in New York, has expressed
desire to have all the. battle flags of the New
York regiments committed to the flames, as
they serve to keep up a remembrance of the
strife through which we have passed.