The Portland daily press., 1865-10-18
ORIGINAL. AND SELECTED.

O6b1G1NAL ANIL ILL.
a. Rev. Dr. Starrs of Cincinnati and Rev.
j. Sella Martin are speaking in Great Britain
in behalf of the southern freedmen. AT a
meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, DR.. Storrs said
the people of Great Britain had already CON
tributed about s250,oo0 in gold to this object.
E~Ayoung mulatto Kissed a secesh song
in Newbern, n, c., theatre the other night,
for which offence he was seized BY the police,
taken before the Mayor, and fined $40.
d Bzgf John Van Buren, in his late speech at
Albany, said,i cit is remarkable that all the
cFederalists who have been elected have diedin
Office, and the Vice Presidents who succeeded
them. have been good Democrats. Harrison
Taylor and Line aln died, and good Democrats
succeeded them. Do you not see the finger Of
Providence ?" The Buffalo Express wishes to
know if Booth is not to have statue in
Tammany Hall.
THE Boston Transcript says DR.. Chas
T. jackson, who has been absent six months
FROM the City in a tour through California, ar
rived in Boston last week. He is in excellent
health. and no doubt brings with him rich sci
entitc results Of his explorations
| Vs. In the last number of SiIlima7s's Journal
of Science is report of some curious expert
ments made by Rev. Frederic Gardiner, on the
ice of the Kennebec river. By inserting line
of stakes in the ice across the riverin the early
part of February he found, in the middle of
March, that there had been an expansion of the
ice Of over tto5toe feet in breadth of 500 feet.
AS during this time the temperature of the
water was nearly equal, the expansion must
have been due to the sums rays, which was
proved by thefact that there was the least ex-
pansion on the eastern side, where the ice
was partially shielded from the sun by high
bank. ..f....0 "a. ..a ss.s
B@ The camel experiment is again to be
tried on the plains by an overland company"
The camels are to be imported from Algeria,
and viii do some of the heavy transportation
to our fellow-citizens in the wllds. They can
travel on roads impraeticable,t to wagons, and in
the mountain passes as well as in the plains,
and viii be for years of immense utility.
Dg- In the London Times for September
9th, the leading article opens with this SEN
tsnce When the people of the northern
states elected Mr.. Lincoln for the second time
they scsfq saoesd ayEa happy aaapnzse to choose
as the second magistrate Of the country An
dfeE Johnson of Tennessee" The Times used
to abuse Mr. johnson as vilely as the New York
World
s "A Providence paper referring to the
outlaadish and utterly abominable words con
stantly coined by telegraph operators says,
"The Associated Press potfg stream Of cold
poison into the English language every morn.
ing" We hear Of buildings being burglar
/ lied" and sincendiarized," Of steamers "colli-
diding" and oil wells @conhagrating,'' and the
other day we were told an actress had "de-
butsda1 with success There ought to be law
against such atrocities
BThe Saturday Pres says " A former.
and zeal Irish ius1ureosion obtained from the
name of one of its leaders, the soubriquet of the
"Rock" Rebellion The contrast presented by
the present { Fenians Jiaseo, suggests to us as
its appropriate title the Shamrock Rebellion. )"
-"Extra Billy" Smith has resumed the
stotq qso asts bellana in the Washington bar
rooms.
Va A North Carelinian, writing from
Greensboro, remarks. wittily: "A modern
Democratic platform is ia union of ideas that
never could lie peaceably together if they were
not all thoroughly dead"
sy7Ez5 The Pc -tmaster-General now finds that
the former postmasters Of the Old Dominion
repudiated their debts to Uncle Sam to a great
er extent than those of any other of the rebel
States, This is only one Of the mi ny evidences
that the decayed aristocracy of Virginia had
degenerated till it constituted the meanest ele-
ment in the population of the country.
| 9BT An Exchanges guests that 1nince pies,
the coming winter, will be poor or scarce: for.
meat Is 36 cents per pound, cider is $10psr bar
rel, brandyis 81 drop and apples 10 cents
apiece, ior less, and not much less f50y
Us Last week four hundred and thirty :
three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars
Of mutilated currency was destroyed at the
Treasury Department in Washington.
gg- The Richmond Bs11gisn.says the great
eclipse on Thursday morning viii pass through
Georgia via Sherman's march to Savannah, and
thence to Africa. a. srsr' IKE f.e f.s e,
D9 The Amoskeag Manufacturing Com
pany, Manchester, are to build ten more steam
fife-engines for the New York Fire Depart
ment. p Is saigaaet flasrsN i1 s91
gN-The Ocean Mills, at Newburyport, have
declared dividend of ten per cent
The freedmen Of Eastern Virginia have
subscribed fos $3,OoooOo of the Government
loans. Poor creatures what a pity the IF.
IF. V.s' couldn't have aehance to take care of
them .1es3 aia6 3 $ 9sigeua
The Washington Star says Mr.. Roger A..
Pryor is about to start an evening paper in Bal
timore. Prior was in the editorial harness dur
ing the campaign of go, for Douglas, and
welded a vigorous pen 4oA ~ = 40
Y-Hon William Aiken, the old onnonent
of General Banks for the speakership in Con-
gress, is again proposed as a candidate for the
Second So,fth Carolina District.
: eB- Alfred Haalon, the gyrnnast, recently
fell while performing at the Buffalo Theatre,
and his injuries threaten serious results.
q 20 Several English detectives sent over to
look after the Fenians, are sara to have arrived
in this country. - A~
va Ihe Saturday Press calls Tunis the Beg
State and says General Fitzpatrick is the hest
general to put down the Fenians oA8
Z EB George w. Collamer, ESQ, a nrom;nent
and influential citizen Of Montpelier. VT, died
there on Sunday forenoon, aged 81 years. a
~ The relations existing from 1850 to 1881 f
between the Associated Press and the South
ern press have been resumed,