The Portland daily press., 1865-12-13
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED

the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, died
at St. John on the 9th ult. He was in his
10th year. ..o - .fbEls slr
G- General Fitzpatrick is in Washington,
and will sail January 1, direct for Chill. The
settlement of the Spanish Gillian imbroglio
renders his visit to Europe unnecessary.
U.s. Gen. Fitz Henry Warren has accepted
his mission to South America, to which he was
some time ago appointed.
U.s. A strong lobby interest is said to be
working in favor of renewed reciprocity with
the British Provinces. flaGe
GB- Lieut. Gen. Grant has arrived back to
Washington from his Southern tour. o.
EB All the recent city elections in Massa-
chusetts have gone for the Union Republican
candidates The unholy alliance between the
eight-hour men and the Democrats has proved
utterly abortive.
Ey 1t is said that but very few of the dele
cations from the Southern States remain in
Washington They have gone home to await
results.
EB- A northwestern Base Ball Conven-,
ton met at Chicago on Thursday Fifteen
clubs were represented. An organization was
formed under the title of the Southwestern
Association of Base Ball Players. % Why
didn't they call their association "Base Ball
Congress"2 "e .
EY@The military forces have had to be re-
stored to some of the counties in Georgia,
| from which they had been removed, on account
| of the outrageous conduct of the "chivalry'
towards the freedmen.
U~A +. Keenan,, an Englishman, commit
/ rod cninidp in NaU Vork Eri6oxr Mi ht hxT
taking laudanum. The deceased was tailor,
contributor to the Sunday Mercury, and a
sufferer from unrequited affection. Such an
accumulation of woes must have been insup-
portable.
GA New Brunswick paper remarks that
of all the places in the world penitentiary
would seem the most unlikely to be broken
into by burglars. Yet on Wednesday night
last week, the Provincial Penitentiary at St.
John was broken into by robbers, who stole a
gold watch and chain, valued at $125, from an
apartment of one of the keepers.
| GYThe wife of an ex-negro-trader in Peters
burg few days ago saw freedman skinning
a live catfish in the market, and expostulated
with the remark, GLOW can you be so cruel %
why" said the intelligent contraband, eds is
| Qc way uCy useo W uO NC, etllu SC SWlut W
get even wild somebody" 81 -
EB@The work of repairing the levees of the
Mississippi at New Orleans is rapidly going
forward. General Sheridan has offered some
material aid in the shape of thousand wheel
barrows and ten thousand shovels and spades
Puck-the San Francisco comic paper
cites the late earthquake in that city as proof
that "the world wags." The same paper comes
out for the Fenians in this wise E4,t.tg
''- PITY PAT.
Puck wears the green upon his breast,
Tho shamrock in his hat;
And when he thinks of Ireland 8 woes, ..
His heart goes pity Pat 4u ~ ll
GY-A gentleman in Raleigh was taking all
evening walk few evenings ago. when he was
attacked by three rufians. He, being fortu.-
nately armed and equipped for such an adven-
ture, knocked down the first two of his assail-
ants with heavy cane, and shot the third
They naturally begged for quarter, and he be-
ing unable to find policeman, was obliged to
let them CO. t'f
EB@The cashier of the Custom House at
Philadelphia lately embezzled over $4,000 and
disappeared. The Collector, Mr.. w. B. Thorn
as, has very nobly made good the amount out o.
his private fortune, so that the governmentloses
nothing.
gY-Itis understood that Hon. James Harlan
will be elected to the United States Sem
ate from Iowa, and that he will retire from the
Interior Department to accept that position
from which he was called by President Lin.
coin. El nl
1.-THE Raleigh Sentinel notices the con.
tinued prevalence of the small pox in the diff
fe.ent portions of North Carolina. Its pres
ence is not only in the vicinity of Raleigh, but
in the neighborhood of Wilmington. The au
thorities have taken steps to arrest the progress
of the disease, but, for all that, owing to the
migratory and present condition of the freed
people, it seems to be spreading. Charleston
papers also speak of the disease as very preva
lent in South Carolina. -tf-{ i3- .fs
GY- Colonel Merchant, now commanding OF
Bedloe's Island, has been breveted a brigadier
general in the regular army. ~ I'll
FThe Emperor Napoleon III. had a mag
nificent collection of meerschaum pipes, which
as DR.. Conneau strictly forbids his making ust
them, he gives away to his visitors. His favo
rite costume in his study consists of an ole
paletot, well worn and remarkably shabby.
GIrRandall Hunt is elected United States
senator from Louisiana; his colleague has no
been chosen This is the second set of sena
tors from that state. The protest Of the legis
lature against the recognition of Hahn and
Quit has already been announced. a5'l1a'
\ BR Every man who has "greenback" in
his pocket is to the same extent, for the time
being,a creditor of the Government and holds
its bond for which he neither asks nor expects
interest Why shouldn't the Government
have the benefit of this non-interest paying
loan as we'll as private corporations
gB~The designations of Gems Butler, Dix,
Ketchum and Croxtan were accepted by the
President yesterday. The designations of But
Ter and Dix date from the 30th ult a i4 .-H