The Portland daily press., 1865-08-02
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

ten dollars; in the form of greenback paid To
the M. D.
B California copperhead editor threat
ened to sue for libel if anybody called him a
traitor, whereupon one of his Contemporaries
dubbed him Confederate patriot"
B8f-A recent census has been taken in Wis
consin showing an increase in the population
of that State of from fifteen to twenty no.,
cent. over that of 1860.
Nearly all the factory corporations in
New England are offering increased wages in
order TO secure supply of operatives
% What kind Of fish is an infant /? A
sackeri 7s,,Nsf.
The Oregon Statesman says thousands
of acres of wild strawberries are now WASTING
in Willamette Valley.
The New Bedford whalers are anxious
about their vessels in the Arctic and Ochotsk
seas. Insurance has been effected at Is per
cent. The rate is heavy, but the Mercury saws
the sleep of the insured is more quiet
B- The great issue to be decided next
week by the election in Kentucky is. Shall the
constitutional amendment be adopted
The population of Boston is 1872 264-an
crease in five years IA, 1862
.4l
time Speaker Of the House of Representatives,
is coming to Washington to intereede for his
own pardon. 1t is said he takes high ground in
favor of the constitutional abolition of
| slavery.
B- Elections will take place as follows
Kentucky, members of Congress and State
Treasurer, LIST Monday in August; Vermont
Governor, Lieut.. Governor and State Treasu-
rer, LIST Tuesday in September; Maine, Gov
ernor and Legislature, End Monday in Sep
TENDER.
B-I 1t is a very lucky thing that in all the
late insurgent states martial law still prevails.
Indications are becoming numerous that its
use cannot safely be dispensed with for the
present, and that the pardoning of rebels has
not resulted favorably to the cause of peace
and harmony.
By- The public is now in daily expectation
of news from the Great Eastern and the At
lantic cable.
DB Copperhead editors have the extraordi-
nary faculty of expressing blood from white
turnip and of extracting comfort and warmth
from an icicle. The New York World is one OF
these 1t is even now indulging in specuIations
as to the narrowness of Mr.. Lincoln's escape
from defeat, and how few changes it would
have required to secure the election of Nc
| Clellan. aa4
BY A teetotal firm of shipbuilders in Var
mouth, England, christened ship which they
launched with bottle of ginger beer.
| BB Gov. Sharkey of Mississippi, is reported
to have said recently" Il have lost all the ne
groes had, some seventy or eighty in number;
but, so help me God would not cast a vote to
restore the institution of slavery" S
BY Report says Beauregard will soon leave
| New York for Europe, the Government having
given him permission to leave on condition
that he viii never again take up arms
against it.
BaS Santa Anna, at present residing at the
island of St Thomas, has issued pronuncia-
mento, in which he denounces the attempted
] empire in Mexico, calls for rally in favor Of
democracy, and urges the Mexicans to fight
against the invaders.
B~A copy of the very rare first edition of
Foxes Martyrs" was lately sold by auction in
London for 1856.
BsB@ The Westminster Review, in an article
on Theodore Winthrop, ranks him as one of the
most marked writers of America. A
B The income lists of the citizens of Chi
o o,, io1 +he year 1864 are published by the
Chicago Tribune. 4...>s-.g tba haav;est orc
those of VIM. B. Ogden, $685. ass; S. M. NICK
erson, 275,643; A. H. Crosby, $194, 2s2; ana
| c. H. Mccormick, inventor of there S1O1.
| 800.
BB-The Louisville Journal says - sJeff
Davis and his followers got up the rebellion for
cd. al.
erty in slaves secure. And now JEFF. Davis is
in prison awaiting trial for his life, and his ex-
slaves are cultivating his fine plantation of two
thousand acres in Mississippi for their own
benefit"
i s Describing the burning of Barnum's
! Museum an exchange says the happy family
had an unhappy nd,-their doom was written
in letters of fire; their fate was sealed, but the
! seal was saved. heaN
BB- Among the recent guests at Cambridge
was the Marquis de Chambrun, an intelligent
and friendly Frenchman who has been in this
country for several months studying our insti-
tutions and people. The Marquis was the
friend of Alexis de Tocqueyille, and illusions
to him may be found in the published cores
pondence of the latter. The lady to whom he
is married is daughter to the distinguished NJ
de Corcelle, and great-grand- to the
beloved and iIustrions Lafayette. s ssall,
BA friend at Pittsburg, Pa, has sent us
a small bound volume entitled, "The Oil Re-
gions of Pennsylvania" with Maps, Charts
&C., of Oil Creek, Allegheny River, etc. When
we get leisure hour we intend to give it a
| careful reading, at the risk of mourning that
formidable disease-"Oil on the BRAIN
j ID BB- Union College has conferred the degree
of LID on Lieut.. Gen. Grant. We wish
our own "Bowdoin" would do the same.
BB-Itis said gentleman in Boston who
shook hands with Gen. Grant, went out door
and shook hands with the less fortunate citizens
for ten cents head. xa I8sN
W. The authorities of ST. Petersburg have
just annulled the order which interdicted
smoking in the streets.
EB The population of Utah is now 100000.
Salt Lake City contains 10000. N & e
gB Six candidates are being run for Con-
gress in the Memphis district. Hs
| gYThe London Star, speaking Of the cleo
ton riots, says that the "scenes which were of
common exhibition over Great Britain last
week would have disgraced the days of Ho-
garth, and are shame and disgrace to any
civilized land" FlW nf6 9er4fz
1.-THE Mobile Register has come to the
conclusion that it is no use to talk of State
Rights SO long as the sword shows there are no
| State Remedies.
BB-On Saturday evening Mr.. John Dow,
son of Capt. Albert Dow of Rye, N. H., was
fatally injured by the discharge of gun which
he was taking from closet The charge en-
tered the left cheek, passing up through the
brain, causing death in few moments His
i age was II years.
BB- soldier named Sullivan, who had
! just been discharged from the hospital at Wor-
cester, fell from the platform of car on the
Boston and Worcester Railroad, Monday fore
noon. The train was in rapid motion, and his
| bod " was cut in two NV 4ba ,ubaa1s IT. -