The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-07-25
ORIGINAL And SELECTED.

of the new Mann statue, says "the general
effect is of a Salem or Palmer leg, booted and
trowsered, sewed on to the front of sail
CLOTH"
20 Some cases of cholera are reported at
Chicago.
GY~ The Iades, the Confederate organ in
England, finding its occupation gone, has given
up the ghost. ~ q eE9Yl III &.
B9 The Christian Commission is fast clos
ing up its business. 1t has done noble work
since its organization, one which will cause II
to be held in everlasting remembrance bv all
friends of the soldier.
BzR The chairman of the Kentucky Union
Executive Committee writes to the Louisville
Journal my news from all parts of the State
is cheering. With a well-concentrated effort
we will carry the State"
Va Half million Northern money has been
invested in Maryland lands. .tias
Bs'The Frontier Scout is the title of a
little newspaper just started at Fort Rice. Da-
cotah territory, by the officers of the garrison.
1t is the only paper published within thirteen
hundred miles of that point, #
gY- The Atlantic cable will charge about
$4,000 column.
BH-T The "diving" firm appropriately named
Underdown & Co., have been at work lately on
the sunken frigate Congress, sunk by the Mer-
rimac, in Hampton Roads, They have raised
thirty-two guns and considerable furniture and
are preparing to raise the hull They will have
the hull or none. NJ
vs. A correspondent more addicted to
scripture than the classics, asks if the transla-
ton of Homer bears any RESEMBLANCE to the
translation of Enoch. M
Vgg An Alabama correspondent represents
the cotton prospects of that State to be good,
and the amount planted to be large. He says
the plantations are worked by negroes and
nearly every one he conyersed with on the sub
ject informed him that the crop would be more
profitable under the new regime than under
the antiquated system of slavery.
"a What very unpleasant thing quar-
relsome disposition is in any CIRCLE and what
dreadful results it often leads to.
BB- The Boston Post says of Henry A.
Wise "He is a miserable demagogue, bragg
CART and traitor, and should have been hung for
Cilley's murder many years ago"
VA daughter of Governor Curtins has
eloped with and married gay soldier boy
BB The cheese factory in Westboro, Mass,
commenced operations on the 26th ult, and in
the first seven days turned out IS cwt of
cheese Haes4E EFaa
o Ia Col. John H. George, the Concord poll
tician, was married few days since in Ports
mouth to neice of Gen. Meade. After the
wedding ceremonies at the church, the invited
guests from Boston, Portsmouth, Concord and
other places, went to Col. Macomb's, where they
were presented to bride and groom, and where
magnificent collation. was served.
BY- Gen. Hardie has published an emphatic
denial of the charge againt Secretary Stanton
of refusing permission to Mrs. Surratt's spirit
ual advisers to visit her The copperhead
calumniatcrs of faithful Cabinet officer had
better try again.
% Bishop Potter, who died in San Fran
cisco on the 4th inst, was 65 years of age. He
was formerly Rector of st. Paurs, Boston.
The oldest building in Richmond, Va.
once the headquarters of Generals Washington
and Lafayette, and afterwards the boarding
house of James Monroe, has been renovated
and converted into shoe-shop. q
Bg Hon. Richard s. Fay of Boston, died
suddenly in Liverpool, early in this month.
E8-It is estimated at the Freedmen's Blu
reau that at least forty thousand freedmen have
learned to read and write since the rebellion
broke out.
va Sir Isaac Newton's nephew was cler-
gyman. When he had performed the marriage
ceremony for a couple he always refused the
fee, saying-"Go your way, you poor wretches
have done you mischief enough already" :
John Randolph of Roanoke, used to say
that thirty years make sad changes in a man
As aninstance of the truth of this remark, we
would state the fact that thirty years ago q
tailor in Greenyine, Tenn, made the first coat
our eldest brother ever wore, and now that same
tailor is the President of the United States
Surely tall oaks from little acorns grow =
Jefferson, Texas, Bulletin @
gF John Forsyth has started the Registe,
again at Mobile. May it register Johns good
conuucU VIII his aDII1Jy. -FursyUn mas been
terrible rebel, and needs to do many works
meet for repentance.
EB Fashionable office coats are examples OF
conciseness of style.
D8 Lord Brougham regrets that his Voice
cannot reach across the Atlantic" Mrs
Grundy regrets ittoo, as, if the human voice
could be heard at any such distance, there
would be no need of a Transatlantic Tele-
graph, and such people as Lord Brougham
might be employed in transmitting useful de-
spatchesinstead Of making useless speeches.
E This is the season of the year, says the
Newburyport Herald, when all boys-and girls
too, when they have pportunity-should learn
to swim. Do it carefully and safely; but don't
fail to learn when young. The knowledge viii
always give confidence and security and may
save life.
EB John Mitchell, a Fortress Monroe letter
says, has varied his bare-footed tra1nps up and
5 down his easemate by requesting that Bible
and prayer-book might be furnished. These
two books were offered to Mitchell on the first
day of Instrumentation, but he then refused to
have them in his casemate. They have now
been furnished him. aia ~ " s6@e
The Philadelphia North american says there
are some six or eight regular" female physi-
clans in that city whose daily practice is equal
to that of the average of male physicians.
One of them keeps three horses in constant
use. llas9 le IaaH ae6aH as!isn
WB III tut year LOU Tile OulIeu states mails
between Washington and Richmond were car
ried by rail for $500 per mile yearly For the
same service the Postofice Department. will
hereafter pay but 5000 per mile.
lei By-A New York paper mentions the arrest
of woman in the streets with nothing on her
person but love letter and a daguerreotype."
BY- The New Bedford Mercury comes to us
greatly enlarged and improved. 1t is good
paper, and comes from a city whose inhabitants
have long been accustomed to get rich by
Striking ae."" o.
j BB The Boston Herald says General Grant
has announced his intention to visit New Eng
land in few weeks. "a
BB-T The q. S. Steamer bunderberg, launched
at New York on Saturday, is the greatest sea-
going frigate in the world. Within six months
she will be ready to make her fifteen knots per
hour, and bid defiance to the world in
arms. Her armament will consist of