The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-12-14
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gY- The Little Joker is the name of new
comic paper to be started in New York, edited
by Artemus Ward, orpheus Q. Kerr, and Jo-
seph Barber.
gY- A young German girl in Brooklyn
wrongfully accused of stealing S., committed
suicide on Friday last, by taking Paris green.
EB~Gen. Towards report, now in the hands
of the President contains full statement of
the operations of the Freedmen's Bureau, and
his reasons why it should not be discontinued.
Ey- A Western farmer, who wished to in
vest the accommodations of his industry in Uni
ted States securities, went to Jay Cookies Of
fee to procure the treasury notes. The clerk
inquired what denomination he would have
them in. Having never heard that word used
excepting to distinguish the religious scots, he,
after little elaboration, replied, "Well, you
may give me part in Old School Presbyterian,
to please the old la y, but give me the heft ont
in Freewin Baptist" .-
Bs3 The following is genuine transcript OF
an epitaph :-"Here lies the remains OF Inomas
Woodhen-the most amiable OF husbands, the
most excellent of men. N. B.-The name is
Woodcock but it would not come in rhyme"
g,ss-- Roger A. Pryor, who once had Pryor
engagement wi h "Bowie-knife" Potter, is now
nracticing law in New York.
ES- Gen. Grant was very coolly received by
the white citizens of Savannah, but had warm
reception from the cylored patriots.
EB Bishop Hopkins is in the South, on a
lecturing tour. He is in congenial atmos-
phere. & f. 4a
Kenneth Rayner and some other South
ern aristocrats urge that negro legal equality
would cause war of races, and that both races
cou-d not live together in the South; that one
Or the other would have to be exterminated or
exported. Expatriate all the traitors, then,
and there will be no trouble. They areless nu-
merous and can be better spared than the loyal
black men.
SR A gentleman who recently inserted
want" in the Chicago Journal, received six
hundred and thirty-two answers. Who says
she people don't read the advertisements?
SB- The Louisiana Legislature were badly
gictimized few days since a communication
vas received by the Senate, of which the fol-
lowing 10 the opening "The undersigned, as
committee of ladies, acting in the name Of
large number of loyal ladies of New Orleans,
wish to present your honorable body with a
Omitted States flag" etc. 4; the Senate received
,he communication, accepted the flag, and fix
ed an hour in the afternoon for its formal re-
oeption. Shortly after they repaired to the
nAll of the House of Representatives for the
purpose of electing State Printer that duty
performed, they returned to their own cham
DER, and ordered, forthwith, that everything re-
tating to the letter and the flag should be ex-
plugged from the journa of the Senate In
he interval the fact had leaked out that the la
dies desiring to make the presentation were
eolored.
90 A laughable incident occurred at the
American Telegraph Company's office in New
York the other day. An Irish woman who had
ecelved telegram from her husband in Bos-
on, carried the answer to the Office in a sealed
envelope with postage stamp ON it, This she
handed carefully to the clerk, paid the regular
arif for ten words, and hastily Departed
When the message was opened, it was found to
contain four closely written pages of foolscap,
which the poor woman did not have the faint
sst idea would be read until Patrick read it at
Boston. The message went the rounds OF the
'AhOC AOA PChuoai, but uob OOWduS DOSGOu
8 nuchly," as Artemus Ward remarks.
E3- "The Colored American Joint Stock
Company has been formed in New York, capt.
tai $4,000, shares $40 each, the object of which
is to publish weekly paper devoted to the in
5erests and elevation of the colored people, and
such other papers or books as the funds may
Justify. They are to purchase the AngIo-Afri-
;an. Can't our neighbor of the Argus find
time to sneer at this "nigger enterprise 2"
GY- Gen. Logan has finally declined the
Mexican mission. ~
E9- The steamship Trent, associated with
he seizure of Mason and Slidell by United
States frigate, has closed her career, and work.
neu are now breaking her up near the Isle of
Dogs in England.
BB New England is not to be left out in the
,old in the present Congress, so far as the COM
nittees are concerned She fills full share of
he chairmanships. - 81 -
Vs. Martin Kennedy is on trial at East Cam
bridge, charged with the murder of Thomas F.
aumsay. 81. ...a a-gat. s1t. .-..- INK.
BThere is great excitement in Washing
ION Territory, in anticipation of the assorted
cargo OF Massachusetts, women shipped for
that market. Meetings have been held, COM
nittees appointed, and the settlers stand on the
ip-toe of excitement awaiting the arrival of the
lovely consignment. JOS i BIS Us.
Er"Pve heard, Captain" said an English
traveller to a Western steamboat captain, shat
your western steamboats, run in water not
more than two or three feet Deep" 1.-TWO or
taree feet deep, indeed" said the captain; "why
wouldn't command a boat that couldn't run
On the sweat of a water pitcher"