The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-07-04
ORIGLN4L AND SELECTED.


the past year amount to the pleasant little sum
of 81 100000, or over 81 500, 600 per day.
at is currently reported that the Emperor
Macmillan of Mexico speaks fuently in six
languages, and generally wears duck trousers
-and roundabout and sombrero hat He viii 4
probably soon take lessons in taking French
lsleave and walking Spanish "A ZIG 3l
Coal Is falling rapidly. Fifty thousand tons
have Just been contracted for by government,
TO be delivered at New. York at $534
| D The Union State Convention viii be held in
Trenton, N. j., on the Goth of July.
/ General Grant and his wife put 5000 into the
contribution box in the new Methodist church
in Philadelphia, last Sunday week.
PSI Judge Lowell of the United States District
Court has ordered the rebel pirate Georgia,
now lying, at New Bedford, to belsold at auc-
ton. ..r h
In accordance with the spirit of the act of
Congress ordering no more three cent. notes to
be issued, Secretary MeCulIoch has on his own
responsibility directed the issueaof five cent
notes to cease. s3a sss sa.ts4 3.i piss .4
e. The coal miners fn Pennsy vania have ceased
their strike and gone to work The Sunbufy
Anlericdal says that coal by the cargo in that
place, is selling at $3.50 per tom 19
The Boston Directory, just published, con-
tains 81 ,O91 names, an increase Of $500 from
last year. nv "a .ial5 x d3nsla sd. 0ai fsssia
An amateur fisherman at Gloucester, caught
$40 worth Of mackerel before breakfast a few
mornings since. M ia-
In the returns made in the 4th revenue dis
trict of New York; Messrs Clafin & Mellen
put down their sales during the year 1864 at
forty millions of dollars; A. I. Stewart at
thirty-nine millions, Mr. Stewards returns
were only for his wholesale department, and do
not include his immense retail trade ssi ~
Mr.. Vambery, the explorer of Central ASIA
writes to the London Times that the report Of
the defeat Of the Russians at Kkokan is alb
surd. He says the idea of $1,000 Russians in a
region where 5000 could hardly find subsistence,
is ridiculous, and for an artillery park of
30 cannon at Kkokan, that place never had
more than q small quantity of arms, and was
robbed of those two years ago by the Enir Of
b Gen. Butler has presented 5000 to Phillips
Academy. Andoyer, to provide a free scholar
ship, fifty years, for the son of soldier-black
I or white-disabled in the war.
Yellow envelope paper, after being lighted
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and the fame blown out, will continue to burn
until entirely consumed. White paper does
4 not possess this property. Chemists allege that
4 it is the coloring matter which renders this
kind of paper more combustible than other
qualities y9s9 es5x ~
Saul is really among the prophets. The New
York Neaos is out in favor of negro suffrage.
This change of base is significant as it indi-
+ hcates conviction Oh. the part of the Meas not
only that this policy must ultimately triumph
but that it Is likely to be supported by the
strong men Of the South.
Gen. Howard has promptly disapproved .oi
! the order Of Captain Bryant, one Of the Assis-
tant Commissioners of the Freeemen's Bureau
in Georgia. who undertook to regulate the price
of the frsedmen's labor something after the
style Of 4he Virginia chiyalry. l,.s ,er X .es
The World is still busy with the question Of
JEFF Davis petticoats. Itdenies the facts stated
but insists that there is nothing derogatory to
the character of a great man" in them, even il
trueP se "a $40 sa.isa.ssg saisn isl
Some one wishes to know the meaning, d
. -~az mon fractasp The Boston 410ga.
. script renders the phrase a.ss. - han.
der, but i wont get broke" - w
% There is a young lady in Henry County, Mis-
souri,, not yet sweet sixteen who is this yeal
cultivating fifteen acres of corn. She does al
the necessary work, including plowing, and has
. undertaken this piece of work to obtain money
4 with whiolto educate herself There is true
T grit in that girl.
y Mr. Doster, counsel for the prisoner Payne
a made great point in his argument the Other
: day when he excused that wfetch's crime al
the result of his southern education, declaring
that slavery had trained the assassin. He wa
1 perfectly right. Slavery is the real criminal il
this whole catalogue of atrocities, and tits slav
8 cry with her. accursed progeny of caste priv
t lege and political exclusion that should be pun
q ished for the crime with utter determination
q and death.
The London Punch makes Daniel Webster
the author of the great Unabridged Dictiona
ryn Brilliant Johnny Bull. 9g53i y
Punch has often burlesqued and carisatured
7 Abraham lincoln, but no pencil of us has ever
, derided JEFF. Davis then who ever thinks
) of clubbing "asolr appletree ?e
I II Moses Taylor pays tax this year Oh an in
s come for 1854 of 1857 ,295, and John G. Fremont
: ON an income of q ,402
Pixies Theatrical company is playing in
# Portsmouth. isalG 9na IaHa nDn a
: The Republican State Convention IN Massa-
f chusetts viii be held in Worcester on the 14tl
! of September, for the nomination of state Off
cers.was sas;sfseIi0 3s5ls5..H b4e ss.a4 .s4i4
ogA volume Of Mr.. John Bright's speeches OF
# the American question is to be published il
" Boston. Isaaia9 ie2 tlahN s'aeaasH qeFi2a9
A son of Dr. Breckenridge having returned
\ from the rebel army, the old man asked him in
= his nuaif,t vvaS,. tsNIv son have ua, t;,,,nd IN