The Portland daily press., 1865-04-15
ORIGINAL AND sELEOqBD.

US IL 10 d Wise aumOnltlon always give 10
narrow-minded man wide berth.
u The shoemakers are said to be the only
everlasting people on earth.
% Spain spends$2O 900 annually for tobacco,
and 1854, 600 for lottery tickets.
u There are 5000 900 grape vines in Califor-
MIA, and during the year 1864 there was an unu-
sually large quantity of wine manufactured.
% The vital question in making up the next
Kentucky legislature will be in regard to
constitutional amendment abolishing slavery.
50 The Universalist Society in Auburn have
recently added $500 to the salary of their pastor
Rev. J. c. Snow.
80 Thurlow Weed has written savage letter
upon Horace Greeley, and his vacilauDg, in
consistent course on the questions of peace.
70 Men are expected to go and pop bullets
at the enemy, though they may never have had
the couraget to pop the question to a woman
Prentice.
u The Nicaragua senate has passed bill
to give 24O acres of good land to every
white settler. A good chance for profitable emf
grafton.
% Thirteen breweries were recently seized at
Allegheny City and Pittsburgh, by revenue Off
GERS, for fraudulent returns of the amount of
beer and liquor manufactured.
B-It was General Ewell who set Richmond on
fire. The confagration proved quite serious
one, destroying the greater part of the princi-
pal business street.
BrSt. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, was open
ed for public worship ON the oath of Feb. last,
after having been thoroughly renovated at the
expense of Mr.. Guinness, the ale man.
RM. Cauderay an engineer of Lausanne,
has applied the galvanic battery to the sharpen,
ing Of needles and pins by connecting bundle
of wires with the negative pole.
BA lock of Queen Elizabeth's hair, with an
original poem by Sir Philip Sydney on receiving
it, has lately been found in an old folio volume
of the Arcadia, at Walton, in England. The
| hair ia, color is golden brown.
In Boston on Monday last, merchant
found himself so full of rejoicing over the news
of Lees surrender, that he couldn't work it off
without drawing check for $500, in favor of the
Sanitary Commission.
R A rich Englishman has entered into nego-
tations for the purchase of three-fo urths of the
island of Caprera in order to present it to Carl
baldi, who already owns the remaining fourth.
The entire island is valued at SIG, 900.
80 A bold attempt was made on the night of
the 18th inst, says the Aroostook Pioneer, to
set fire to the sawmil of James Tibbets. of Little
River Mills, N. B. The attempt was unsuccess
full.
ER There is a peculiarly forcible kind of
whisky lately come in vogue in London, branded
L. L., and when cockney says, "come and ave
adram of double hell, he undoubtedly gives the
right title to it.
| RA good deacon making an official visit to
dylng neighbor, who was very unpopular
man, put the usual question: sAre YOU willing
to go, my friend ?" 80, yes" replied the sick
man man. ~ am glad of that" said the deacon,
for all the neighbors are willing"
% The Plattsmouth (Nebraska) Sentinel saws
that Cass County, in that State, is filling up very
rapidly, houses being in very great demand, and
business increasing to a considerable extent,
The Sentinel begins the publication of daily
paper May 1st
% The Missouri Democrat has commenced
the publication of series of letters from the
Hon. Edward Bates to the people of that State,
on subjects pertaining to public policy. The
first letter is condemned by the paper in which
it appears, and the author pronounced 'sbehind
the times"
% slave girl in North Carolina, who be-
longed to Mr.. Ainsley, was a pupil in one of the
day schools She frequently caused disturbance
in school by laughing. Her teacher asked her if
she used to laugh as much when she was slave.
She replied quickly, 81 never saw nothin to laugh
at till the Yankees took Newbern."
e Sam Brannan, who is one of the richest
men in California, on the receipt of the news in
San Francisco that Charleston had fallen, held
private celebration and had hundred guns fred
under his windows. About $g500 worth of glass
was broken by the firing, but he paid the damage
without murmur.
| II We have received several short communi
cations in relation to Mr.. Latham and the flag
one from Norway, among the rest-but we think
1t better to let the matter drop, unless some new
otiense should be given. 1t is time when Union
men, knowing they are right, oan afford to be
forbearing and msgnanimous.
- Gov. Andrew will deliver the address in
Lowell on the 10Th inst. at the dedication of the
Ladd and Whitney monument. The two young
men whose memory is to be commemmorated by
this monument were the first to shed their blood
in their couptry's cause. They fell in Balti-
more, at the hands of the bloody mob in that
city.
BDr. VIM. ]. Walker, recently deceased,
after dividing about $22O,OOO equally between
seven heirs, and making ample provision for his
widow, provided that the balance of his large
property-esrimated at quite million-should
he Divided 1lxyh hath n,exc o.
herst College, the Institute of Technology, and
the Boston Society of Natural History.
% Said Union gentleman the other day to
Southern sympathizer who was defending Jeff.
Davis, 81 think myself that Davis is not the
worst man in the country; he was fire eater.
he might have been dough face-he was a trail
tor, and he might have been copperhead = he
was rebel but he might have been an apostate.u
The conversation dropped.
10 military gentleman in private letter.
after speaking with much humanity of the he.
trayed Southern masses, says sNow mark me
Davis, Hunter, Cobb and the rest, will call upon
our armies, the Union armies, when peace has
been conquered, to save them from their own
people," Whether it would be the duty of the
Government to allow its army to save these
bloody Williams from the people whom thew have
betrayed and ll-used, is question in relation to
to which there may be some difference of opinion.
BThe very loyal advertiser, proverbial for
the devoted interest it takes in our prosperity as
city, yesterday said the quota lacked 200 of
being full, and then complained of the haste of
the City Council in repeating the bounties, and
said the quota would probably have been full bv
this time but for this hasty act, and on the same
page 1T contained the official order to stop DRAFT
ting and recruiting in the loyal States. The C;tv
Government, then, by its haste, has saved the
city 500. OOO-a sufficient reason, why the I'D
vertiser should find fault