The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-09-08
ORIGINAL AND sn1EcrHn

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9-A catchpenny publication just iss,red n
Paris, is called John Wilkes Booths Comics.
sion" tits only weak invention.
"A letter from Galena says Gen. Grant is
talking of taking tour in Europe to be all
sent two years.
BB A spark from laborers pipe DESTROYED
three hundred barrels of OIL two engine houses
twoderricks, and refnefy at Petroleum Cen
| tire, the other day. A~N4
gN General Heintzleman is enjoying the
trst leave of absence he has taken since the
beginning of the war, and is visiting his home
in Pennsylvania, which he has not seen f
twenty-five years. His present rank is that OF
colonel in the regular army. r
| EB- Captain Anderson of the Great Eas-
tern suggests that the new cable should be
made and laid in May next, and the old one be
then picked up and repaired; whereupon the
| New York Journal Of Commerce makes the
pertinent suggestion :"Who knows that the
grapnels would catch the cable intended. or
that in fishing up the first one laid, the new
one wouldn't come up with it, at some point Of
| intersection ?" F 10 ~, se.a -
BB~ Lieut.. VIM. H. Kaler, U. S. A., we'll
known to many in this city, is on duty in Sa-
vannah, in charge of Camp Distribution.
Lieut.. K, we think, is Portland boy
g-The World is sharp on Bennett of the
Herald. Max Maretzek having cut off Ben
netts private box and the latter having threat
ooera, the World says: g Nobody, we assure
him, Maxi cares one straw whether the editor
of the Herald goes, or does not go, into the
| Academy of Music; in fact, nobody, we ven
ture to say, excepting the detectives at the
door, whose duty it is to scrutinize all suspi-
cious-lookiug people entering the house, has
ever known whether he did or did not attend
| the opera" saA .H1E .aes tiqqa
Va Gen. Cluseret has revived the Neao No
ton, the first number of the new series bearing
| date Sept. I'd. .5Laa T04
EThe New York Post says the Demo-
cratic State Convention that meets at Tweddlt
Hall, Albany, to-day, it is said, will throw the
last four years record of the party overheard,
nominate ticket of soldiers, Republicans ana
moderate democrats, and enterthe field as an
entirely new organization. frEgsE esitsfgfaz
GB- Raphael Semmes, who commanded the
Alabama when she was sunk by the Kearsarge,
and who owes his escape to meddling Eng
ishman, is in New Orleans. His arrival there
is duly announced by the copperhead sheets o.
that city, as if it were anything ereditable tc
| the place. ..trs3 ..54.
BB The emigration from Germany is much.
greater than during the war. During the first
six months of the year 1865, 1900 emigrants
left the port of Bremen, and 1869 that OF
Hamburg, for the United States, and a much
greater emigration is expected this fall aid
next spring. 'ielata sta t12ea ,se,W.issN
BB- Since the abolition of slavery in the
District of Columbia, emigration to Washing
ton has be n steadily on the increase, and ac-
commodations in the way of dwelling houses
are at present altogether insufficient. Building
lots are being laid ont for 10 or Is miles out q
the city, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
by those who intend making Washington their
! future home. Nl
EB-The Vicksburg Journal has ilnearthed
an epic poem, entitled Confederate America
written by one R. L. Cowper. and published a
year ago in Raleigh. We give specimen
| scrap 1sf 4fsas s. i IL .aai5sgi3lfs
{" IT'S Northern pride to oft distress, &
The weak ens.ave, the kind Cypress; I
Her soul is where herinterests lead;s
Her heart is just within her head
| Twas for the brave such as We,
To live and die in Dixie.''ss ngfaf
| EThe Copperhead State Conventions re-
solve the ordinances Of secession to be void.
The Buffalo Express wonders why they did moi
50 resolve before the Union army made them
void by bayonets2 ba Gasd shs si,isass's II &,
EB- Commodore John Rodgers has been de-
tached from the iron-clad Dictator and ordered
to the Vanderbilt, in which steamer he will
proceed, as his flagship, to San Francisco
accompanied by one or more iron-cl DIS, to be
stationed permanently there for harbor ard
| coast defence.
BR- Capt. Ludlow, of the ship Isaac Rowland
captured and burned by the pirate ShenaI-
doah, writes to the Sag Harbor Cypress stating
the facts of his capture, and also that when
the pirate boarded the Fayorite, Capt.. Young
of that vessel attempted to shoot Waddell, the
commander of the Shenandoah, with bomb
gun, but unfortunately the mate had removed
the cap from the gun, unknown to the Cap
tain. He was told that it was sure death to
him to shoot. He replied, II would die will
l;ngly, could kill that wretch" The pirates
Immediately handcuffed him, and put him il.
the coal-hole of the pirate. Is 80, ssa'
BY~A document will soon be issued by the
War Department giving the names, company
regiment and residence of all soldiers who died
at Andersonville. The list will comprisei some
$4,000 names. .59SI5e
The Boston Post says Ketchu1n, the for
ger, is honored with wood-cut portrait in the
Sunday Dispatch, which makes him LOOK like q
recent graduate from some idiot asylum.
W. new evening paper has been started
IN 10 +ho Deaf
"a The new British steamship Queen, fr I'M
Liverpool brought to New York fifteen hum
dred human beings in her Storage sl.-A
B- Fernando Wood returned from Europe
in the City of Liverpool, after an absence OF
five months. 4a -, ,.,t.
Dg-A FreewiH Baptist Church has set up
tent on the fair ground at Concord N. H.
hot meals are furnished, the profits to go to the
benefit of the society. OF course they give
good measure at this restaurant.
gB- Extra Billy Smith is passing his time
| quietly in his unconfscated estate near War
renton = y
Blessed is the man that maketh a short
speech; he will be invited to come again. AL,
B-The Danish barque Agnes arrived at
Baltimore on Tuesday from Rio Janeiro She
brought as passenger Hon. James Monroe.
q. S. Consul at that place and bearer of dis
patches from Minister Webb. s sN333ssS
Miss Dix, the philanthropist, has gone
to Williamsburg, Va, to look after the welfare
| of the lunatic asylum there and the comfort OF
| its inmates. 8s Wt.t0tsttseT Htts. S4,sa4
G9 Toronto has ghost, which walks in
Colborne street every night, to the great dis
comfort of the citizens. The police think it is
burglar and the newspapers with such SEN,
sation head lines as Another Visit of the
Spectre !" The Ghost stjll at Large =, sen
rapidly. .sss3GDgSggX sfe.rN al
! By- Jefferson Davis has SO far recovered
from his attack of erysipelas as to be able tore
! sumo his walks daiIv Governmant SS,o,,fs