The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-09-12
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.


600. The goods were taken to Goliad, puf 4
store, and sold In open day by the robbers
B-The controversy between Horace Gree
ley and Thurlow Weed, suggests to somebody
the negro story of the alligator fight.
'Dey ftes anddey fites
And dey chawed dar bodies down. ~
4 And dar tails walked up & III ~ ~
And took annoder round"
Va The Memphis argus modestly- recon-
mends the displacement of General, Howard
from the Freedmen's Bureau and nominates-
Governor Sharkey for the ofiee-because @no
Northern born and bred man can possibly adj
minister that Bureau as well as one born in the i
South and familiar with the negro race, their
habits, nature and character" e 9iia9i'ssa ~
BB-A boy of fifteen lately committed sui
eide in London because the servant-maid took
away his candle while he was reading sPick-
wick Papers" Mr.. Dickens should immortal
ize him in his next novel. { 81 lsH aa.ii7s s6.-,
BAn English railway company has al
ready ps id $4,000 damages to passengers in
| jured ON single accident and more suits are
pending. a IS al .i 4sss i5ses.es,
B- Mr.. Barnum says that the euriosities at
his new museum number one hundred thous-
and. Anybody who doubts the statement has
(. 4 q lIs477.-
full liberty to count them. d. 81 Ill rs 's''..
"a Out of 1854 900 freedmen in Mississippi,
only 5000 are supported by the Government.
"Sir" asked newly-fedged legislator of
a fellow passenger on the Hudson River rail-
road, "are you going to the Legislature pr "No,
thank God not so bad as that. I'm going to
| the State Pri on p tess daf ri sa6ds ]
Va A spectator at Newport seeing man
some distance from the shore, bathing, express
ed apprehension for his safety, when a bystan-
der remarked, There is no danger -, his head
win buoy his body" esssd s,ts,o 49, A.
| ga philosophical cabman in Mobile, thus
| speaks of the section over which his wheels
make their tracks: "If you run over young
ster down here in this here ward said he, "the
folks don't say nothin' - kase they have got
more children than whites for 'em - but you
| jist run over goat, or a kid, or pig, and /
blest if mob amt arter you in two min
| nits I" #lR1M8
B-The tusk of fossil elephant was found
recently in a muck bed about i've feet below
the surface, on the farm of D. S. Pratt in
Brattleboro, vt, by workman who was dig 1
ging muck. The tusk is forty-four inches in
length and eighteen inches in circumference at
the largest end and eleven inches at the small
est. 1t is in q fair state Of preservation, al
though some parts crumbled after being ex-
| posed to the air. eaAiii9i sssia leFif6E ttaf
Among the school books used in France
is one, entirely unknown in this country, con-
sisting of fac SMILES of letters writtenby bust
ness men, eminent people etc, intended to
teach children the art of reading writing of
which there is almost universal ignorance in
| America. Every variety of hand is selected
beginning with the best and gradually pro-
ceeding to scrawls which puzzle printers and
"blind letter. men in post Offices dig.s oe. "A
B8-aI am ready to go to sea, now" said
Captain about to embark upon a three years
whaling voyage; and he gave his reasons. s'The
old flag has new luster, since it has passed
through the bleaching of battle can now
faunt it in the face of Englishmen,, without
dreadiDg the sneer that at home it floats over
slaves" el.a 'saiooa as.sa F..
BB Senator Sprague of Rhode Island, and
Mr.. William Mason of Taunton, Mass, are
about to erect very large cotton mill in the
last named place. Those two purses, aggre-
gated, ought to be capable of doing almost any
thing. .slgS Fat fsrsse
B Tle local editor of the Columbus Jour
nal, an old soldier, says Discharged soldiers
cannot have the Importance of keeping their
discharge papers too frequently impressed upon
them. The brokers and speculators who buy
them for song, expect to sell them back at an
immense profit, when Congress shall have APP
propriated lands to the use and benefit of vol
unteers honorably discharged the service. & 3
% Accounts from the plains state that the
antroubles are assuming more favorable
aspect They now seem to be more peaceably
inclined, and are anxious to treat for perma-
nent peace. Gen. Connor's expedition to Pow
der River has been great success. He has
thoroughly subjugated the Indians. Many of
the troops on the Plains will return to the
East this fall and be mustered out, It is stated
that the regiments made up of ex-rebels have
done admirably. -
% A Rochester paper says "a man who
resides in Chill N. Y, declares that he has dis
covered the cause of the prevailing drought
He attributes it to the large number of light 4
ming rods recently put up about this region of
country. He says these rods take the electri-
city from the clouds, and they scatter without
afording rain. The theory is novel one.
g8 The New York correspondent of the
Boston Advertiser says Because Jenkins of
Phoenix Bank had squandered his thousands in
low company, the newspaper correspondents
could not imagine that Ketchum, the colossus
among defaulters, would also commit crime
without being involved with a female. Yet the
Bohemians and Burleighs seem to have been
at fault. 1t was deeper matter, and light,
superficial criminality constituted no part of
the drama" ~ ,7i'iAi1f ,si@aaaA .4assil
% The Saturday Press announces that
Daniel Pratt, the "Great American Traveller"
is lecturing at the West ON @The Value of the
Human Mind" and suggests that the subject !
must come home to the lecturer with full
force lssft,.t,r.f s...-ss ~ i9$e sasis -
The firm of Ketchum, Son & Co., have
compromised with their creditors and resumed
business
BB- A man with scolding wife, being asked
what his occupation was, replied that he kept
dollhouse.
The Vermont election returns come in
slowly. Of the fifty-ive towns heard from
not one has given Democratic majority.
BB-A Rio Janeiro paper attributes the pas
sage through the Brazilian Congress of the bin
subsidizing line of mail steamers between
Brazil and the United States to the influence
and exertions of RevJ. G. Fletcher with the
Senators, deputies and government. a m
B- Col Forney states that the reason for
Montgomery Blairs gross attack upon seere-
tary Seward, is because the latter did not favor
his (Blair's) appointment to the Chief Justice
ship. sgls4h rtsss. ais
BB- The State of Connecticut votes on the