The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-11-06
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

B8- The daughters of old John Brown
whose "soul is marching on"-are having their
revenge upon Gov. Wise for hanging their fa-
ther because of his anti-slavery raid for they
are teaching feedmen's school in his confis-
Gated mansion.
BsS- The Round Table says TN the popu-
lar mind everything in the Tribune World,
Times and Herald is written or inspired respec-
lively by Mr. Greeley, Mr. Marble, Mr. Ray
mond, or MIR. Bennett whereas the truth is,
that with the exception OF Mr.. Greeley, these
gentlemen contribute very little to the editorial
columns of their papers. The writer's who real
ly give influence and popularity to these papers
are almost entirely unknown to the public
va A newspaper story is going the rounds
to the effect that Mr.. George H. Stuart, the
founder and president of the Christian Com
mission, is about to return to ireland, his ma
tive land, where he purposes to live in future.
He has sold his country seat, on the banks of
the Delaware, ten miles from the State House
in Philadelphia, to Edwin Forrest.
BB- The editor Of the Springfield Repabli-
can went to market the other day and on his
return wrote an article upon the high prices
and the spirit of speculation everywhere rife,
and closed up as follows might not our re-
igious teachers find it salutary to turn aside
for time from lamentations over the heather.
who worship the best gods they know, and scat
ter little wholesome damnation among the
servants of Mammon, who in Christian sanctu-
aries offer robbery for burnt offering? If we
had the knack of it, and were duly authorized,
there is no mission we could undertake with SO
hearty relish"
ES- The Palmyra On. " Courier SAYS a
vast quantity Of apples are coming to market
from Wayne county, and that Eastern BUYERS
have been deceived into paying high prices by
false cry OF scarcity. The Rochester Union
says the same is true of other counties in West
ern New York, and adds 20 The prices which
have been paid for apples this fall are beyond
all precedent, and wholly unwarranted. Those
Eastern people who have bought for consump-
ton have been cheated, Or cheated themselves
va Large quantities of valuable public
lands are being taken up under the homestead
law. At the land Office at Saint Cloud. hIinne-
sofa, five thousand eight hundred acres were
taken up during eptember-one-fourth of it
land held at $3.50 per acre.
E Two modes of treating the cholera are
now claiming unusual success. DIR. Chapman,
of London, went down to Southampton ex-
pressly to try his application of dry ice-bag to
the whole length of the spine. Its effect was
to bring patients ont of collapse, diffuse
warmth over the system, and stop the evacua-
lions; in short, to cure them A Paris doctor
says he has cured a large proportion of cases
with mineral ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS acid and
simple sirnp, in water.
E3 One sad incident connected with the
bursting of the boiler of the steamer st. John
was the killing of Captain Lyons and his wife.
VINO were Just returning from their bridal
tour The unfortunate pair were buried Tues
day from St. Luke's church, where only the
week before they had been married
EY- The old frigate Congress has been re-
Gently raised and brought into the Norfolk dry
dock, after laying at the bottom of Hampton
Roads for three years and a half A curious
circumstance is that hundreds of barrels of
salt beef which were on board have been found
in good preservation, and those who have eaten
of the beef declare it as good as any salt
junk"
GB The returned profits of the National
banks during the quarter just ended, were up
wards of thirty-tw millions of dollars.
We Inc Providence Journal suggests that
the enorss OF Republican papers in Mass. to
get up an excitement over their election, and to
persuade the people into high state of actiyi-
ty, is like trying to induce strong man to take
off his coat and double his fist to kill a mosop;-
to.
gB- The fashion this year should be to wear
your old coat another season. The renova.or
of old coats is man of consequence these
times,