The Portland daily press., 1865-10-09
ORIGINAL. AND SOLICITED.

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gB-Nine counties of Arkansas, under the
control of superintendent of freedmen, are re-
ported to contain a NEGRO population of 1886,
of whom upwards of forty thousand are rep.e
resented to be under employ and self sus-
tanning. a4i'aHg zgaa1 aa
"a Andrew jackson Donelson has written
letter in which he processes himself much
pleased with the working Of the paid labor
system in Mississippi. He says companies are
forming and paying as high as SIS per acre
rent for open lands on the Mississippi. sboGgl
Gen. Slocum, the leader on the Demo-
cratic ticket in New York, made his opening
speech att Syracuse on Monday night, in the
course Of which he spoke at length of the ope-
rations of the Freedman's Bureau, and ex-
pressed his conviction that it ought to be aban-
doned as soon as the rebel States have adopted
constitutions prohibiting slavery, thus leav-
ing the negroes to the tender mercies of
their former masters. No more striking COM
ment upon this advice can be. made than to
state the fact that in the commonjail at Vicks-
burg, where the General was lately stationed
as a Department commander, twenty-five for
mer slave masters and ownersare under arrest
1OT I0urucTS diIu OutI upOA uOSIOco.
BBThe republicans of Connecticut are re-
ceiving the fattering approval of the New
York World, Ne1s, Hartford Times and all the
other copperhead journals in the country for
their handsome defeat of the suffrage amend
ment. When the Devil praises you, you needn't
be long in doubt as to what you have been
doing.
1.-THE Register thinks we don't like the
result in this state. Well, no, not much. We
are not SO we'll pleased with it as the Register
was with the result of the first battle of Bull
Run. Hartford Press. iFg
ERThe Hartford Press gives the returns of
the vote on thu constitutional amendment in
Connecticut in all but six towns. In these
towns the majority against the amendment is
4178. THE republicans have elected their town
officers in 81 towns, the copperheads in 80
towns. In towns the officers were divided, in
6 there was no electio N for town officers and
are unheard from. The republicans have gain
ed on town officers inc towns, the copperheads
in 2. -'eafA--
| B8- Fac-similes of Fenian bonds are for sale
at some of the street corners of New York
They promise to pay the face of the bond nine
public.and are finely ornamented with the Harp
and Shamrock and the Goddess of Liberty.
T ETA dispatch from Washington to some
one in Connecticut on the day following the
election in that state had the following singing
comment on the result zone of the foremost
regiments to break the rebel line on the James
river under Gen. Butler was the Twenty ninth
Connecticut Colored Volunteers. At the time
her white regiments were being mustered out
these gallant men, with the same right and de-
| sire to return home, were shipped off to Texas,
and now uphold her trivined standard upon the
banks of the Rio Grande. The extent of their
enthusiasm over yesterdays vote in Connect
cut has not transpired, but if equal by half to
the noisy ecstacies of every rebel hereabout, it
will nerve them to still greater deeds of valor
and sacrifice of life for the grateful stay-at-
home white men," rs,rv
B-Ay young lady, having been presented to
Louis Napoleon when he was only President,
fancied she was haughtily received. care you
for a long stay in France ~ coolly asked the
President "No," was the reply. "Are you ?"
BB-A shrewd lawyer was fined ten dollars
for oontemptof court. Il am very much sur
prised," said he, addressing the court sat your
honor's decision am not aware of having
expressed any contempt. On the contrary, I
have labored through the whole term, to sup
press my feelings p ~
.BS- a five story tenement house on the cor
ner of Oliver and South streets, New York, oc-
cupied by IS families, was burned Tuesday
night No lives were lost, the inmates escap-
ing by the roof to an adjoining building, losing
all their furniture, clothing, &c. .NS94l
Spirit medium came to grief in Fall
River. AT a "circle" in that city, Capt Bright
| man, an old salt, offered the medium So if he
would unite the knots with which the Captain
should make him fast. The juggler accepted
| the offer. The Captain tied him; and for three
long hours, the poor fellow remained tied not
withstanding he called Justify! upon the "spir-
| it's" AT the end of that time, the Captain cut
the knots and set the impostor free.
Bg-Arrah Ma Pogue has disappeared from
| the London stage, and the song of wearing
the Green" is silenced. KS
| g9-It showed for half an hour in Phi adel-
pnia ON the evening Of the 9th inst.
Canadian papers announce the death of
an inolan princess, Mrs. Sutton, wife of Mr..
~, sutton OF sarawak. She was the daugh-
yer OF noted Chief, and received her education
from some Catholic missionaries whom she ac-
companied to England, being received there
with much consideration, and introduced into
the presence Of royalty. She was an accom-
| plished and interesting woman, a'aA e =