The Portland daily press., 1865-11-29
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED

OhIQlNAlI AND SEIECTEO l-s.fa-.
Vs. Jacob Barker, elected to Congress from
Louisiana, is 81 yearssold, was originally from
Nantucket, of Quaker proclivites in religion,
but very strongly given to money making.
On Tuesday evening last some thieves
entered the new Methodist church on Saratoga
street, East Boston, and stole the carpets from
the side aisles. The carpets had been used but
two or three months
Ey"H Hon. James w. Grimes, Senator from
Iowa, is at the Revere House, Boston. He is
native of New Hampshire, agraduate of Dart
mouth College, and though not yet fifty years
Of age, has been Governor of his adopted State
four years, aud one of its Senators since 1859
ER THE New York World regards President
Johnson's dispatches to South Carolina "as the
counsels of friend" as in any other hight they
would be 'the nnwarrantable commands of the
Chief Magistrate This is a mild way of back
ing away from the President, and denouncing
him as a usurper.
la &B- Reconstruction pays we'll Ex-Governor
Cummings, who was old Bucks secesh Gov
ernor at Utah, and went men, body and bones
to the rebels, is in Washington demanding his
balance of salary. Who wouldn't bea repent
ant and reconstructed rebel = Jersey City
Times. b. ham, Ea.-., 1l48 ,tG;,sIs t4af
Eg- wag says it is @folly to expect a girl to
love man whom everybody speaks well of.
Get up persecution, and her affections will
cling SO fast that dozen guardians can't remove
Them" rs"
Va By an official report to the Indian Bu-T
reau, it appears that the average. cost to the
Government of killing Indians is as follows
each he-lndian $500, OOO-each squaw 100000.
We don't care about investing in red skin
scalps at these figures.
ES Remains of mastodons, petrifed turtle,
and other palaozoic remains, have been dis
covered in large numbers in Dacotah Territory.
E-The Nashville Union says 'The Ger
man farmers of Texas have again raised cot
ton crop of superior quality to any grown by,
slave labor. 1t is of cleaner, fairer fabric,
and will bring the highest market price. When
the farmer works his own cotton, it is tended
and handled at every stage with the utmost
care; and this brings out the greatest skill.
The dellsion that cotton cannot be cultivated
by free labor will produce more and better cot
ton than has ever been raised before" z"
BAF The Brazil steamship line is mora sue
Cessful than its most sanguine friends in this
country andsSouth America anticipated Since
the year 1850 our commercial relations with the
east coast of South America have been great
ly disturbed or diverted by the steam lines to
Europe; but there is now prospect of speedy
resumption of trade. The Havana the pioneer
of this line, left New York for Rio Janeiro on
the A1tl, of Santapbar 10 or
since been established at St. Thomas, Para,
Pernambuco, Bahia and Rio Janeiro.
E.SF" The Memphis Commercial of Nov. 10,
says "We yesterday met large. planter of
high position from the prairiesl of Eastern
Mississippi, who has just returned from visit
to Illinois to purchase corn for himself and
neighbors. In a conversation he stated that
the restitution in that section of country, which
has hitherto been one of thelgreatest granaries
of the world, isgery general 49, - +
By 1t is supposed that the object of the bri-
dial party, who lately went up in balloon from
New York, was to see the honeymoon.
BB-In Cambridge, Vermont, six members of
the family Of Andrew Chase have died with
malignantdiptheria within the short space of
two weeks. A mother and daughter were bur-
led in one grave. .....-....s. ....,..
% The interior of Ford's Theatre at Wash
ington has been transformed into three-story
fire proof building, and the contractor has
given the Keys to the War Department, The
exterior of the building remains unchanged,
EB-The st. Paul and Pacific road has two
divisions, one runs northwest to the British
possessions, and is to reach Hudson's Bay. The.
other runs west through Idaho. These roads
have secured sufficient capital in England to
insure their early completion. B NJ
/ ER Russia is an excellent country to build a
telegraph in, because Poles areso plenty. h.
Er We have received the first number Of
the Typographical. Messenger, by-monthly
publication, published by james Connor &
Sons, the celebrated Type Founders in New
York. 1t is printed with their new-face type,
and is perfect model of typographical neat
ness and taste.
EB An immense iron block at Chicago, five
stories in hight, and weighing with its contents
about 30, O9Otons, has just been raised twenty
seven inches, without in the least int rrupting
the business of the occupants. - =.
Dy Gen. Pope thinks that many of the re-
cent outrages committed on the stage coaches
and trains on the western plains were perpetra-
ted by white men with painted faces. They
were after plumber.
EB"A man named William M Smith was
arrested at Newark, n. j., recently charged with
robbing the body of Mr.. Gordon of $500 at the
time of the late railroad disaster at that place.
va Judge Ross Wilkins, of the u. s. Dis
trict Court, Detroit, is interfering with the ar
Engagements of the citizens of that place to pro
cure cheap clothing. He decides that q man
who crosses to Windsor, buys new suit, and
wears it home is something very like SNUG
jgler. '~''''@ ~ - 20 -
DB An exchange says "a gentleman in trav-
cling along the coast of Florida and Georgia
found woman who did not know what news
paper was. She had seven children and a pipe
inher mouth She must have had a eapa
cioJs mouth s-rsF ,i,,. ...,.-rf t.,..... y
gB "a pains-taking genius has discovered
that there are one hundred and thirty-eight
bachelors and twenty-seven widowers in the
new English House of Commons. o., 4fea..
va Josh Billings says: ",God save the
phools, and don't let 'em run out, for if it
warn't for them wise men could not get lv-
ing."s t+i > 20
GS The passengers by the Atlanta, the
cholera ship at New York, have been allowed to
land. 10. a4a.3a salI..
va "A dispatch to the NY. Times says the
statement that the President has pardoned
John Mitchell is untrue. He did not apply for
q pardon while in Washington, but took the
oath of allegiance. ......-.
gB The recent murder of the Cuban Otero,
in Brooklyn, and the speedy arrest of the assas-
sins, lis remarkable instance of the old adage
that murder will out and the case is espe-
cially interesting from the fact that the only
trace left by the guilty men was apair of gloves
stained with blood and cat across the fingers,
which had been thrown hastily aside after the
crime was committed.