The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-12-09
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DB-The Army and Navy Journal says that
General Hooker has been confined to his room
for several weeks by illness, and his disease has
assumed a form that causes much apprehension
to his friends. :
EB-The Nova Scotia papers state that the
Hon. Mr.. Mcdonald, Financial Secretary, and
Isaac LIE Vesconte, Esq, ex-Finaneial Secre-
tary, have been appointed commissioners to
cooperate with others from the different Prov
inces, with the view of negotiating a CONNER
cial treaty with the Brazils, Mexico, ETC.
They are about to proceed Immediately to
England.
BB-Twelve hundred troops of the Foreign
Legion have arrived at Matamoras as reinforce
ments for General Mejia. " Ell
EB Gen. Banks was serenaded in Washing
ton the other night by the Louisiana delega-
ton, and made a speech in which he is reported
to have said that whether as private citizen or
legislator, he would always be found cham
pion of freedom and equal rights, not only for
the white but black race. s.iia sa
WA paragraph cut from an exchange says
1.-THE mayor of Mobile has prohibited the rail-
roads and steamers from importing negroes
into that city" How is this (? Is not the negro
now citizen, and does not the constitution
give to the citizens of each state all the priyi-
leges and immunities of citizens of the several
states By what right then does mere mu-
nicipality exclude from its midst any class of
native born citizens.
EB "A special dispatch to the Boston Adcer-
tiser says "the forthcoming report of Hon.
Freeman Clarke, Comptroller of the Currency,
will be one Of the ablest and most interesting
documents submitted to Congress. He takes
high conservative ground in regard to the
finances of the country, and his facts and ar
guments, showing where we will land if our
currency expansion and excessive importation
are not checked, are very convincing. Mr..
Clarke discusses the entire question of finance
in all its elements, currency, taxation, tariff
and revenue. He urges readjustment of the
tariff, with view to check importations, and
the consolidation of our system of internal rev.
enue by restricting taxation to few of the
leading articles at high rates, such as cotton,
tobacco, distilled and malt liquors, stamps, Ii
censes, Sc"
The Press and Times of Nashville has
interesting advices from Alabama and Georgia
We quote an instructive passage Con the
subject of repudiating the United States war
debt, the politicians and the people are, nearly
unanimous. They all say that either the con-
federate war debt must be paid or both debts
must be repudiated. One candidate said in
crowd on the streets, that he had killed more
id Yankees than all his opponents put to-
gether. Nota solitary Union man was elected
to any office, high or low, at the recent cleo
tons. They would vote for no man who was
not thorough rebel"
become the Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune. ''i 'iii - ii0A@'iliii'Av
EBThe style of an eminent French PAM
phleteer is described by one Of his critics as "a
pound of gunpowder in pint of milk"
GB-On the morning of the great Western
earthquake it is said that Goose Lake, situated
in the Nevada range of mountains, near the
northern line of California, was covered with
great number of water-spouts, rising at the
same time and at short distances from each
other, over the whole surface of the lake, pre-
senting much the appearance of an immense
school of whales SLOWING" '
gEA magnetic bank-lock has been recently
invented by man named Sergeant. 1t is
without KEY or key hole, and forms in itself
one of the mechanical curiosties of the age.
1t is claimed to be the only one in the world
which is perfectly free from feeling" from the
outside. When locks cannot be "felt' from the
outside, it is impossible to pick them.