The Portland daily press., 1865-10-28
81 A aE a
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.


BT- Garrett Davis of Kentucky last, week
fled petition in the Bourbon County Circuit
Court against the Kentucky Central Railroad
and Generals Brisbin and Palmer, claiming
$4,000 in damages, for carrying several of his
slaves out of the State, under Palmers and
Brisbin's orders. This is to be made a test
case.
G8- The Canadian residents in New
York have issued formal invitation to their
countrymen resident in other pats of the
United States, to meet them in general con-
vention, in New York, on the 18th of next
month, for the protested purpose of discussing
subjects pertaining to the interests of the two
countries. 1t is said, how truthfully we cannot
tell, that annexation" projects are at the bot
tom of the movement i
"a A French Canadian journal, LUnion
Rationale, has the following very definite in
formation "We learn from a good source that
our government has been, or is on the point of
being put in possession of certain facts of the
highest Importance. Our information does not
give u, the precise facts; but there is not the
slightestdoubtt that the Canadian authorities
have been, or on the point of being official
ly informed by the Cabinet of Washington,
that it is the intention, more or less resolut of
the Fenians to invade Canada" To invade
Canada for the purpose of freeing ireland, would
certainly be q plan worthy of the inventive
genius of Paddy, but it would be quite as Judi
cious as anything the Fenians have done
yet. vs.ss.. $500. 0s
EB Earl Russell says, in his letter to Mr..
Adams, that the efforts by which the United
States Government and Congress have shaken
off slavery have the warmest sympathy of the
people of these kingdoms The hypocrisy of
this is ksenly exposed by the following passage
in Mr.. Adams reply "In the midst of the
gravsst of our difficulties, cannot forget that
even your lordship was pleased, in an official
published despatch, to visit with the severity
of your but too weighty censure. the greatest
political measure Of the late ldn.eated President,
that which, in fact, opened the only practica-
BILE way to the final attainment of the glorious
end 9aT
The Boston Adgertisen under the,canp-
ton of Reconstruction Begun" states. that at
the competitive defamation at Harvard Col
lege, on Saturday, the 18th, open to all appli-
-eants FROM the freshman class, the, first .pre-
MUM was awarded TO a student who lost his
arm, serving as captain in the confederate
army; the second to young man of negro de-
scent, the first undergraduate of that race who
has been admitted into the University.
vs. The Paris correspondent of the Cbcmi-
cal Neacs states an experiment that has been
made by M. Duchemin during holiday at the
seasids. He made small cork buoy, and fixed
oft disk of charcoal containing small Mate
of zinc. H then threw the buoy into the sea,
and connected with copper wires p am cleo
trio alarm on the shore. The alarm Instantly
began to ring, and has gone on ringing ever
since, and it is added, that sparks NAV be
drawn between the two ends of the wires
Thus the ocean seems to be q powerful and in
exhaustible source of electricity, and the small
experiment of M. Duchemin may lead to most
important results. H3es ia tfsssf sv
ET The Boston Transcript says the pres
sure upon Collector Hamlin for places in the
Boston Custom House is very great from that
and the neighboring States. Thousands of the
applicants will be doomed to disappointment
while the claims Of few meritorious soldiers
will probably be allowed.
4 EB- The Commission appointed under re-
solve Of the Mass. legislature, to report upon
the hours of labor, are giving hearings to the
friends of an eight hour system, at the State
House in Boston. t.-t,.s
E5y- Hon. Ben. Wood has secured a nominal
ton to the New York State Senate. A very
small and mean piece of timber to fill a very
small place, 8 e....s eaf