The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-10-27
ORIGINAL AND snrSoTnn

SO OES1d1N AL AN 0ElAEiOIEU.
B-A dispatch from Washington saws the
Secretary of the. Interior has decided that a.
person born in the United States, and who re-
moves toa foreign country, and takes the oath
E-ofiallegiance to the government thereof, and
subsequently, returns to the United States
must on making, application for apatent be re-
| garded as a subject of the government to which
he removed until he complies with the natu-
| ralizatipn law of the United States The deci-
sion was occasioned by the application for a
patent by an individual born in the State of
Maine, who removed to Nova Scotia and swore
allegiance to Queen Victoria, and who at the
| expiration of ten years, returned to the Uni
Ated States. asiis
BSf-A memorial to Congress, signed by over
eight thousand freedmen, asking that some, ac-
ton be taken in eference to the suffrage of the
colored population Of the District Of g jun
bia, is in eircGgafion. The signatures are gem
orally in fair handwriting, and all, save about
one hundred Of them, would be creditable to
educated white men. ItWas said awhile ago
that President johnson suggested this move
ment. -Hof4 ssTar. gassEi6 M ghass s1ga q
+ s-BAT Col. James L. Orr is the first Governor
of South Carolina ever chosen by popular
vote, He took an active part against secession
1 in 1850 and 1851 ,and when the. great struggle
came in 1860, Waa the last to yisldto the seces-
/ sionsstorrp. He was the last Speaker of the
National House of REPRESENTATIVES eyer elected
by the Democrats. =
b Bsg Gov. Pierpont of Va, having denied the
statement that he denounced the Government
if the Treasury Building, Hon. Freeman A.
Clark has published card in which be says
II state unquatifsdly that Governor Pierpont
! did express the sentiment imputed to him, not,
however, in the precise words as stated in, the
dispatches to which he alluded, but in more
4 objectionable and offensive language, and also
I affirm that did direct him to leave my Office"
By- Gen. Howard in an interview with the
Mayor of Charleston, and others, told them that
4 the opposition to the Freednaenps bureau was
confined to politicians; That the planters werel
favorable to it; That the President and himself
i ere.ankious for a complete, restoration Of the
civil authority; but thatthe negro had no pro
tectors in their late masters, and must have the
protection of the. GOVERNMENTS and until the
/ State allowed freedmen to testify in thecourts,
the bureau would be continued. rss
BThe N Y Herclds Charleston CORES
pondence says Secretary Seward has informed
Provisional Gov. Perry that the President ex-
poets him to hold his Office, until relieved by
the express ordereof himself = ~
+ BE~T The Concord Monitor says an elderly
man by the name Of Eaton hung himself in
Nashua on Sunday. Cause, melancholy, cause
Of melancholy family troubles, cause Of family
troubles, rum
A Swiss paper draws an uInlattering
picture of Capt. Witz before he quilted zp-'
! rich for America, and says he was imprisoned
for forgery and ,emhezzlement, and was divorced
from his wife.
BsfIast wednesday, Francis s. Martin, a
returned soldier, who had lost leg at Cedar
assisting to excavate in his fathers field, at
| Williamstown, Vt. sLAg.1 Il
I B- A slilful physician at Brooklyn, New
York, reports that there has been at least one
marked case Of cholera in that city, This is
causing some alarm there, though the pre-
Willing opinion is it was not a case of Asiatic
5ohoFera.' The city authorities are taking meas
ures to put that city in proper sanitary condi-
ton. -eg-
| EB-The Californians are much hurt at the
report that they suffefednost by fright, from.
/ thsreceTt earthquake in that State. sae, .
ga Philadelphia paper says the habit
of laudanum drinking is on the increase in.
that city. shaaEs HHidgIngWH hgg .
Counterfeit $50 gfeenbacks a are in nj Cir
culation in Boston. One was taken at the
Fitchburg Railroad depotand detected at the
Suffolk Bank. These bills arc very well exc
cuted, and can only be distinguished from the
| genuine by experts. Z
81 RH~David L. Yulee of Florida, is asking for
pardon. He was one of the original conspDirr-
atorssas was shown by5as letter found at Fer
nandina during the war, and published by us.
! Itiswritten 'bhel first shall be last, and we
trust the President viii let Yulee waiA There
is time enough to pardon him. = Evening
Post. aae 'ef'sFl sse'a tHsf - z'slls iAsia's
II The Richmond Wing says ave think
the negroshould be content with what the war
has done for him, without asking the right of
suffrage or other political privileges, rand il, he
makes such demands, we are opposed to grant,
. ing, thems" sro'wlich the lBfOoklynrEH. M
Union responds: "We think that the rebels
Should be content with what the Government
has given them-rwith life liberty, and the res
toration of forfeited rights of citizenship; and
that deeengy, if nothing else, should prevent
them from presuming to dictate to what extent
thewelf-earned rights of loyal men should he
recognized ----s,s.
l. MI. Punch thus notes a point in Nor
'thefn Mythology "a chieftain2 to the Hiph-i
lands bound Prometheus
= Rs Major General Franklin is in Washing
! ton and will resign his commission in the ser
vice TO take the management Of the Cots
Firearms Manufacturing Company. -7ass IS
+ GB Strange to say, all the democratic narers
with the New York Daily Meas at their head.
arr. new vpraising Henry Ward Beeeher. II
was all brought aboutby hissermon last suns
/ day.,
I Pit appears that INDECENT whites in Rich
rnond are now drawing supplies from the gov ts :.
hernment at the rate of two thousand rations
per diem, and at a cost Of 5000 - q IS
i fBB Extensive Goldfish banks have been d;sa
covered in the' Sea of Ochotsk, and vessels
have been sent there from San Francisco ana IA
/ othsr Pacific ports. -ao4
BB-The Barnet House in Cincinnati was
tgecsntlys purchased by Captain Silas Milfer for
100000; and the Walnut Street House by F,
4 D Lincoln, at sheriffs sale, for $4,000! II On.
BF~ The rebel General Simon Bolivar Buck
ner has turned editor, and assumed charge of
the New Orleans Crescent.
1.-THE businessmen of Washington held,
asmeeting on Tuesday evening, to take steps
to establish Merchants Exchange in the
| capital. v ssa.sa .s.s5is 80 ~. ~
photographs are now taken with success
on porcelain.
/. 4 tit4s.i 4
pit IS said that ex-re5el Gen Dick Tav-
Tor has been appointed superintendent of the
extensive cotton growing company of Northern
capitalists owning plantations IN Mississippi.
. B8gThe spiritual adviser Of Wirz has adj
yised him to immediately prepare for the
worst, ard to expect an order for hisexecutiop
in few hours. Wirz was at FIRST ind gnant at
the suggestion of such a sentence. and d.