The Portland daily press., 1865-02-22
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

y-Gen. Butler has gone to Washington.
- Belle Boyd is stated by the English papers
to be in a state of restitution in London.
gy-A little boy was eaten up by bear, in
New Jersey, short time since, his feet, encased
in his boots, being all that was left of him.
Eg-Sydney Smith tells tales of man $50
dry that if you were to bore holes in him with
gimlet, sawdust would come out"
81 The latest bit of French gossip is story
that Patti is to be shortly married to a Russian
nobleman of enormous wealth..
~ tits said that there are in several of the
convent libraries in Mexico works of rare value,
which cannot be found even in Europe.
6rThe San Jose Mercury regards the Pacific
Monthly, published in New York, and s'devoted
to the interests of the Pacific States" as "the
ggrThe Count Johannes, in his libel suit
against Horace Greeley to vindicate his impeach-
ed honor, has failed, the jury having found
verdict for the defendant.
IL Madawaska is the name of frigate build
ing for Government at the Affair Works, N. Y.
Her cylinders are 100 inches in diameter with
four feet stroke.
IRA New York correspondent of Cncin-
natl paper states that police returns show more
than fifteen hundred deaths among the rioters
of the former city during the riots of 1863
gY-"Dixon,' - in dispatch from Washington
to the Boston .AdUertiser, says Gen. Shepley was
relieved Of his command at Norfolk at his own
request
a-A steam-engine of ten-horse power is used
~, hocn ifa1 in AM for
machinery for washing, wringing and ironing
the hospital clothing
n.y. Late Enelish -papers annoupce. the arrival
aud the Continent, of Major General Mcclellan
and family.
RA young man in Paris recently shot him
self through the head because his mother objec-
ted to his getting married. No brains wasted,
suggests the Boston Post.
- Postmaster Weeks of Bangor, has detec-
ted boy in-opening postofice boxes with false
keys, and the juvenile culprit has implicated
others.
10 An eruption of Mount Etna took place
during the night of January 3d. after several
earthquake shocks. At the latest dates from
Messina the lava was flowing rapidly, and several
villages were in danger.
- The Brunswick Telegraph says 'sif the
war had accomplished no other good. it should
be credited with the determination of burning
fluid intolerable nuisance and fearfully de-
structive of life''
e Bombay is in state of much excitement
over the great success of East India cotton cul-
tivation. Men who short time ago were pos
sessed of only moderate means have suddenly
become miIlionaires.
q Augustus P. Dumont, o large contractor
for government clothing, but who failed TO fulfil
his contract, has been sentenced by court mar
tial to pay foe of five thousand dollars and be
imprisoned two years.
% The Jersey City Times speaks of the no.
torious Count Johannes as an Everlasting nui-
sance, whose title is Spelled in three letters by
the public" Aspiring young men can readily
guess the title
% The New York Evening Post publishes
list of twenty one serious railroad accidents
which have occurred in the Middle and Western
States since Oct. 10th, many of them attended
with serious damage to life and limb
p Senator Nye of Nevada, has recently made
o speech in the U. s. Senate which the Chronicle
sion Of the habeas corpus, and scathing ex-
posure of the hollowness and untrustworthiness
Of spurious democracy.
p Returns from Iowa show that during the
present winter there have been cut up and packed
% 900 at Burlington, 20, 900 at Des Moines, 49,
900 at Council Bluffs, and $4,000 at Keokuk--
the latter place having put down much the lar
,,Ia Al
u Westfeld thinks it has ghost. He, she,
il, they, or them walk up and down in vacant
house in the night season, causing the most de-
lightful terror to the people, who gather out
eide the house to listen to it.-[Boston Adver-
tiser.
EzY-The respite granted to Captain Beall, the
Lake Erie pirate, under sentence of death, was
for the purpose of allowing his mother to see
him. His execution will take place some time
this week. The report that he had receiveda
free pardon is, of course, untrue,
u The Rev. R. O. Kellogg, formerly Pro-
lessor at the Lawrence University, Wisconsin,
recently became insane after some revival labors
at Fort Atkinson. He was taken to the insane
Asylum at Madison, and during the night dashed
his head against the wall with such force as to
cause his death.
d The Machias Union says, in a dolorous
strain, "the day the President and Mr. Seward
went down to Fortress Monroe to see the Con.
,euera'e Peace Commissioners, gold sold in New
OK at 2O4; the day they returned to Wash. |
lngton' itsold for 2l6 and since that it has baen
"s hlgn as 2so' And since that, again, it has
oeen down to 2O3, but the Union won't tell
of it. 'eh
E1 1t IS one of the easiest things in the world
to be mistaken. A poet-writer in the .sdper-
tiser illustrates this. He copies from David |
Barker a pretty hard hit at the pro-slayerv
Democrats, and then tries to convict David of |
inconsistency by a travesty in which his I
: s''s, 10, zeal as Democratic stump orator is set
,1t'n' The cream ofthe joke is that David Barker
~ - oeen on the stump; has never played
e,r,;,,, '..,0 4au he has mixed up the Barker
llmlly SO that theirmOst familiar friends wont
recognize them.