The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-12-16
9 ORIGINAL AND SELECTED


BY- An official recount of the votes cast for
Mayor in Lowell, reduces Mr.. Peabody's ma
jority to four in an aggregate vote of over 5000.
GR- A series of one hundred temperance
meetings has begun in Western Massachusetts,,
under the auspices of the State Temperance
Alliance. -A4l a 4
B An engineer on the Orange and Alex
andria Railroad, Va, while his train was in
rapid motion, saw hawk sitting upon the
track ahead, and imagining it to be broken
rail, became SO frightened that he jumped
from the engine and was Immediately killed.
BY- Gossip has it that when Jefferson Davis
was asked what he thoughtof President John
sons message, he replied :--"It is wisely and
boldly specific upon every subject but the one
concerning me most vitally-my trial"
The Chairman of the Senate Commit
tee on the District of Columbia is Hon. Lot NJ.
Morrill,, of this State. The proposed changes
in the municipal relations of the District to the
Government, and in the civil status of the
large colored population, will attract much at
tention to the action of this Committee.
EY The Louisville Journal thinks that when
the devil is pardoned it will be time enough to
ehhifA VI P"hoShAhS VudhM euC WIctCu WIZ
burned Lawrence, Kansas, and butchered its
Inhabitants We think SO, too. W
BE- A Charleston paper takes satisfaction
in saying that General Grant, on his recent Wis
itin that city, twas quietly received by the
military authorities. The negroes and North
ern citizens turned out in considerable num-
bers to see the General, but native Charlestoni-
ans all turned their faces persistently towards
the business parts of the city as the hour for
his arrival approached. A few merchants,
mostly Yankees invited the distinguished
guest to dinner at the Charleston Hotel, but
he declined for want of time" it
EB- The Southern ehivalry have again
yielded to superior po1er. Their delegates
sent to Washington have nearly all retreated
They could not stand the charge of the hotel
keepers. tE.,s ea--.t -f
EB- The correspondent of the Boston Ad-
yertiser, writing from Savannah, says the hope
of the negro in Georgia lies in the continued
military occupation of the State, and In the
continued existence of the Freedmen's Bureau.
gBrA recent circular from an English house,
the different partners of which have been
through the cotton growing States since the
war, estimates the supply of cotton, of all
Kinds' old and new, at two million bales.
| w Frederic Douglass. it is reported, is to
be the delegate sent to Washington to look af-
ter the interests of the black race, and he is to
have $4,000 to pay his expenses.
| Gv The London Morning Herald writing
about Fenianism in this country. saws "the
United States cannot at one and the same time
be the territory of friendly Power, and the
home and harborage of an enemy" 1t ALWAYS
did make difference whose OK was gored.
gB- The Richmond Republic says that the
United States Commissary Department in that
city has issued to destitute citizens, since the
18th of last June, $40 400 rations, and is now is
suing 900 rations per week. After the 18th
inst the issue is to be discontinued.
ED- A correspondent of the Providence
Journal, with the Agassiz expedition, says that
they have already obtained specimens of more
than seven hundred fishes heretofore entirely
unknown to science. So tG
Ia A man named Mcdonald, clerk, aged
81 years, has been sentenced to seven years pc
nal servitudc for having three wives; and for
treating them all with the grossest neglect,
leaving them at times without food. The in
/ ference Is that if he had neglected neither of
/ the three, but been a faithful husband to all.
he would5hsye escaped trouble.