The Portland daily press., 1865-09-26
} oHrarHAn AND sn1nornn

~ The tide of emigration from Canada is
setting strongly towards the States. A Mon
treal Journal says, 'the people are leaving us by
tens Of thousands" .e-sss..,.,- = <
"a Pithole, Pa, has thirty hotels, a large
theatre. three banks, two telegraph offices,
whiskey saloons and lawyers offices without
number, and no church. saas ava f. n
EE- Quilp of the Boston Post, says when he
has no liquor on hand he treats his friends cor
daily. El-.s.s 4sasolA sTaeseei4
Z BBF-The Round Table is decidedly fastidious.
New York has not a daily paper up to its stan
dard Of what a metropolitan paper should be.
The London Times alone seems to fill its eye.
It seems to us exceedingly modest for journal
which has once failed, and is now trying second
experiment tolive, tospeak SO oracularly asto the
qualities necessary to make successful popu-
lar newspaper. .ss
B-"What capital smacks those Gloucester
fishermen have to go to sea IN" exclaimed an
appreciatiye gentleman, who had been 'looking
the thing over" "Yes," replied his companion,
'but they're not to be compared to the snacks
theyget on their return home !" ~ +
EH-The Hartford Insurance Offices had $780,
900 insurance on the property lately burned
in Augusta. aa 1872 ss.4s. ls8as-
BYGen Grant has declared that under the
terms of surrender, the attempt to iindict Gen.
Lee at N orfolk. for treason, was inadmissable,
and has used his influence with the President
to procure the pardonrof Gen Lee. We never
supposed from the terms of Lees surrender,
that any other view of the case could be
taken asF fi'7sia A'iltissfl'taAf ht g
BB- Says the New York Tribune, @coal has
gone up about So a ton since the first of the
month. Everybody knows that it is a conspir-
aey between the miners, transportation compa-
MES and dealers which puts it up. Eventually
these swindlers will be the losers for the coal
atEcost companies are rapidly growing and will
soon drive the combination dealers out of the
market if they persist in extortion-" \ az
gH-The New York Express calls attention to
the fact shat Gen. Barlow-U Union candidate for
Secretary of State-"won many if not most of
his laurels under Gen. Mcclellan" whereupon
the Tribune says !, Seen. Barlow reputation is
that of an active, resolute, hard-fghting Gem
eral. If he managed to win any part of that
reputation under Moe lellan, it is the highest
possible testimony to his ability to overcome
circumstances by force of character.
BR The Journal Of Commerce says it has
conversed with returned officers who don't
think the colored troops worth their salt. We
fully believeit. The sort of officers likely to
be eonEersing with thatpaper are not the sort
likely to haveseen much hard fighting. Gen.
Grant says the negroes are surpassed by no
troops in the world. Suppose the Journal Of
Commerce should try little conversation with
hint sSef sV&) Mst0 @s5E 50 ~
BOne of the officers of the workingmen's
Protective Associative, New York, it is said
has absconded with $780, ~
B A Nashville letter says that the late
rebels Henry 8. Foote, John Bell and Neil s.
Brown, are all residing in that city. Brown
has returned to the practice Of law Bell is in
feeble health and keeps very quiet; Foote is
| active and busting as ever, and saws that he
shall hereafter eschew politics and devote him
| self to the law bass
B3 1t has been discoye cred that three COM
panies of street cars in Philadelphia have been
detrauded by their conductors of at least one
hundred thousand dollars. The receipts of
roads in the city after the detection of the frauds
increased one hundred dollars per day. 1t was
also found that the drivers blackmailed the
conductors and the stable boys blackmailed the
drivers.
| W Sambo had been whipped for stealing
his masters onions. One day he brought in
q skunk in his arms; says he, ''Massa, here's de
chap dat steal de onions Whew - smell him
BRET re- = ~ -
b ID Mortified pride often takes the name and
| prise of a hrohau hooo+
| W In one of the western courts lately a
manwho was calledlupon to appear as a wit
ness could not be found. On the Judge asking
where he was, an elderly gentleman rose and
with much emphasis, said "Yoar Honor, he's
gone" 3Gone | Gone r said the Judge, "where
is ne gone r ''That cannot inform you" re-
Piled the communicative gentleman, "but he is
dead" This is considered the best guarded an
swer ON record sSe go
W Inc Boston Post, despairing Of any
Democratic success this year, says, 1--WE cannot
expect to do more than maintain an organiza-
ton intact in November and therefore it pro.
poses to renominate the old candidates IF they
VIII accept" Poor dog Trayi How have the
| mighty fallen Z ..lss