The Portland daily press., 1865-11-16
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED

hfSe W tlie state,
-Habakuk johnson, an old farmer living
four miles and half from Indianapolis having
| been missed six weeks, was found corpse I'M
| der the floor. of his own house. He was 10
| years old and his wife, who had just turned
| two,t,,-fve reported that he had run off with
another mans wife. Mrs. Habakuk johnson
and Juvenile farmer in the vicinity have been
| arrested on suspicion.
| Es5-- The World considers the elections of
| last week the Bunker Hill battle of the Demo
cratic party, and thinks what looks like a de-
feat is in reality triumph. Well-if it is able
to take that consolatory view, no humane per-
son should object but to us it looks vastly like
the kind of victory which Napoleon won at
Waterloo. We hear a good deal in these days
of blessings in disguise" We are glad if the
Democracy can think they have got one. u, 81.
Bg' Bartholomew Corbett, aged SO, father of
Sergeant Corbett, who shot Wilkes Booth, has
been conveyed to the Marylebone uondon)
| Workhouse Infirmary SO very ill and his head
SO dreadfully swollen from erysipelas, that it
is thought he could not possibly survive many
hours. For many years past, says a London
| paper, the old man has lived in q small back
room in Chapel street, Edgeware road and for
the last seven years no one but himself had en-
| tered the place. He was understood to be
taxidermist, and was considered to be very
clever at his business. ,oce.af u r, i &
| When the earthquake occurred at San
| Francisco, a nurse who was engaged in wash
ing an infant of very tender age ran screaming
into the street. She stood on the sidewalk for
some time swinging something in her hand,
which at first was taken for dressed chicken
| by the by-standers, but which began to speak
for itself in langu zee which placed it at once
in the category of a different class of animated
nature. She was holding it by the foot, head
downward, and had forgotten all about the
| matter in hand.
EB-A lady in Boston, now nearly seventy
years of age, can repeat all the Psalms of David
and Solomon's Proverbs by heart No matter
at what verse one may BEGIN she will take
up the cue and proceed to the end of the
| chapter. ~ ~
GR The Democrats claim to be the friends
| of Andrew johnson, and yet made the defeat
| of the Constitutional abolition amendment the
great issue in the New Jersey campaign
President johnson reeiprocates this friendship
| by making it condition precedent to the res
toration of the rebel States that they shall rati
| fly the same anne ndment. "''- 81 ''f '..'
BE The Massachusetts, House of Represen-
| tatiyes VIII have no lack of candidates for the
! Speakership. They are bobbing up in all parts
By~The Boston Saturday Evening Gazette,
a weekly paper, has been sold for $4,000. Mr..
z. b. Goodsell, former proprietor, is the pur-
chaser; Mr.. VIM. w. Clapp, jr., who will con-
| tinue sole editor, is the seller
W-A Wisconsin copperhead who was arres-
| ted along with nearly hundred others for for
chilly resisting the draft in 1862, brought suit
! against Governor Solomon for false imprison-
ment but after hearing the case Judge Near
thur of the Circuit Court directed the jury to
return verdict for Governor Salomon.s sTU 4
EB-A correspondent of the N. Y. Post says
that Union surgeon, travelling in Barnwell
Is. CO. district recently, was candidly told that
he Sought to begin to Deed all the niggers to
DEATH for they had got to be killed off in some
| way" Another man told him that .''the feder-
ais ought to kill off all the niggers before they
went away, or the people here would have
to do it," The people in that section of South
Carolina are especially bitter towards the col
ored people.
There is a boy down East who is accus-
TONED to go out on railro ad track and initiate
the steam whistle SO perfectly as to deceive the
officer at the station. His last attempt proved
eminently successful; the depot master came
out and Switched him off"
WThe colored people of Alabama are GO
ing to hold State Convention, to meet in the
off Of MaI,1a tba I,;rd
Der. t@list tlsA 4+lni4pN .Al6
G9@The war that has broken out between
| Spain and Chill, is in consequence of demands
made by the former power, to which Chill
would not accede. The Admiral in command
of the Spanish fleet in South American waters
has proclaimed the, blockade of the Gillian
| ports, giving neutral vessels ten days to clear
lin. Chill takes up the gauntlet with great
spirit. The people subscribe literally for the
support Of the government. Letters of niaroue
have been issued by the Gillian authorities and
there is every prospect Of very lively time in
that part of the world --n5 4,aaI l.-1-4 zig
l. The Chicago Republican thinks it is
wonderful how prompt the Southern Conven-
tions, the Southern aristocracy, and the South
ern women especially, are to apply for the pa,-
/
If they were half asready to do justice to the
freedmen, the condition of the South would be
much more encouraging
Gy The New Bedford Mercury says, Bier
stadt's great painting, /" The Storm in the
Mountains, upon which he has been engaged
for more than six months, will be finished in
about two months. 1t will then be exhibited
in the principal cities of the Union, and after
wards taken to England where it will be en-
graved. 1t is larger than Mount Hood, and is
more striking, if not more meritorious
work. lf. n.a .s
EB THE st. John Eyening Globe of the 10th
inst, says, "Hon. Geo. Brown of Toronto. is
expected here by the steamer to-night-osten-
sibly ON business connected with the Reel
procity Treaty."
E3 On the 31st uit., a carpenters apprentice
in Stratford, c. W., split his masters head open
with an axe, because he had chastised him.
He is not expected to live t os
va General Baker, government detective.
asserts that his account of the attempt of Wirz's
wife to poison the prisoner, is true, notwith-
standing the denial on the part of Mr.. Schade.
Virus counsel. Tf
gSa'- 1t Is very suggestive fact that Presi-
dent johnson has appointed Gen. Logan, Min
lister, and Mr.. Browning, Secretory of Lega-
ton, to the Republic of Mexico, not to the Gov
eminent of Macmillan
EJ- Kenneth Rayner is one of the Repre-
sentatives to Congress elect from North Caro-
lima.
EB The street railroads of st. Louis recent
ly raised their fare; but so. much popular in
dignation was aroused thereby that they have
returned to their old rate.
E3 The Gillian government has ordered all
Spanish residents to the interior and confisca-
ted their property. EFT N Tya,F-r,11yy
GB The new Legislature of the State Of
Iowa is politically divided as follows Senate
republican. 43: onnnsitian d Housa-rannhli-