The Portland daily press., 1865-10-05
ORIGINAL AND sEnnorHD..

EB Al Connecticut editor relates at length
his experience with an Irishman whom he
hired paying him double, the wages he would
have earned at the gravel bank to learn to
read SO that he might vote; and the son Of his
mother pocketed tie bride and voted the wrong
ticket The editor gives thisas reason why
colored people should not vote. It is reason
why the editor should not vote
BB-A contemporary gives the following d.
rections for any one who wishes to live to the
age of 115 Eat your food very salt, about salt
enoughlto corn you, and. let it be principally,
potatoes, corned beef and cabbage; use no
tea, coffee or tobacco; drink little water and
no milk. Live in New Windsor, N Y. Be
lbornin ireland; 80 a rebel in 1898, and get two
wounds in. the leg..s Bewell and hearty, except
poor eyesight. Above ali, be born in 1751..
BB- A story is going the rounds of the pa
pers, originating with a correspondents of the
New York World, In relation to q wonderful
discoveryof gold and Jewels made by the work
men engaged in excavating the Mont Gems
Tunnel The whole account, which is related.
with many melodramatic particulars, has very
much the air Of a cock and bull, but the World
correspondent affects to give it credence, and
says it is corroborated by the fact that work on
the tunnel has been suspended.
U.s. In Cochin China, bull races are very
much In vogue. The bulls are harnessed to
chariots, and run with great speed si
ca Accounts from Belgium say that the
gathering Of the tobacco crop has commenced,
and that the leaves are of remarkable dimen-
sions and of superior quality. 9sa<9l p9lnq
a ~ B. .Gratz Brown, United States Senator
from Missouri has made long and able speech
at st. Louis. in favor of equal suffrage. He
centepds that Congress has the right,to require
negro suffrage in the reorganised States as in
dispensable to "a republican form of govern
ment" .-.-fst
81 Western Journals are once more talk
ing of manufacturing molasses from corn. The
St Louis Democrat asserts that from bushels
Of corn three gallons Of molasses can be ex-
tracted. 5usgisf,,ssrggssa J.s5s ,s,s,-ey r,sr
u The secret Of thu London Times, special
interest in the rebel cause, Is out; its chief ed
itor, financial editor, and several employees
have no less than $4,000 invested il, the rebel
cotton loan. aoG ia aIbbiM CT
W The New York Nesos gives the Demo-
cratic platform of that State a hard hit when it
says that the platform not only makes open
and undisgpised war upon the honest Democ-
racy of Pennsyl vania, New Jersey and Ohio
but even goes the superAuous length Of ours
ing the Chicago platform of the war Democ-.
Cracy EaYTJTTaF .pHTeg4r =
,E8 The Comnaon,oedstk tells good story to
the effect that Some six or more years ago. AZ
: Mr.. w, a friend and admirer 81 Rev. Theodore
Parker, was wallingin Winter street one Sun-
day morning, reading paper, a gentleman
stepped up and asked him if he would d;ract
him to Trinity Church. Mr. ". did so. adding.
at the same time, Il perceive you are stran.
ger, and If you will step into Music Hall INV
honor for it, you will hear more truth in one
half hour than has been dealt out in Trinity
Church for twenty-five years" The stranger
thanked Mr.. W. with bland smile. saving.
Excuse me, sir, but I am going to efiiciate in
that, church, in an humble way, myself, this
morningp Mr.. w. passed ON, with aiow whis-
tle..52 fasogasaizs0a So ~
BB A photographer of Cleveland, Ohio. is
about to explore the Mammoth Cave Of Ken
lucky for the purpose of taking views of its in
terror, by the aid of strong chemical lights.
EB- The first vessel from Greenland that
ever arrived at Philadelphia, came into port
last week from Ivigtuty with a cargo of kryo-
lite, q rock from which chemical substance Isl
derived. u
DB- That sprightly Sheet the. Baltimore
Clipper Is discontinued, and its proprietor, Mr.,
W. Wales, has commenced, in connection with
two other gentlemen, the publication of a new
journal entitled The Daily Consmercial, large
and handsome sheet, to be devoted to COM
mercial and kindred interests.
gB-In Cyprus the cholera is aggravated by
the terrible fever season of the country. On
the approach Of the scoufge all the European
inhabitants fed from the town of Larnaca to
the mountains with the exception Of the French
Consul, the Count de Marioourt, who remain
ed at his post. He paid for hisdevotedness
with his life dying of the epidemic.t