The Portland daily press., 1865-11-23
3 ORIGINAL AND SELECTED

THE Saco Democrat fatters itself that
Tom B. Florence, editor Of the CONSTITUTIONS,
Union at Washington, is to be called into the
cabinet at the head of the Navy Department
We should laugh to see the President appoint
ing one of the most INSCRIPTIONS copperheads
alive to place i'm his Confidence We think
the senate would laugh too when it confirmed
I such q nomination.
BB The Saco Democrat, referring to the re-
port that President johnson was .jubilant over
the eleotion returns from New Jersey, says,
IF Mr. johnson is particularly pleased with
the defeat Of his Democrat friends, then of
course he will not expect them to be particu-
larry enthusiastic in his defence, though it will
not prevent them from sustaining him in the
right. But we deny the alleged position of the
President towards the Democrats" MI. John
son is, probably not over solicitous for the sus-
tanning power of the men who for four years
have been seeking the nations life, or opposing
those who have been laboring to save it.
BThe mortality inthe United States hos
pitfalls during the late'war was only nine per
cent. In the Crimean war it was fifty per cent.
EY- A recent dispatch from Washington
says General Robert e. Lee is reported to
have applied to the War Department few
weeks since for permission to keep a few pieces
of artillery now at Lexington, and belonging to
Z the United States, for the purpose of instruct
ing the young men at the military school in
artillery practice. The response of the De-
partment may be inferred from an officer being
detailed from Richmond few days since to
. take possession of the ordnance and remove it."
EBThe Philadelphia Press will issue Sun
day edition in future, printing paper eyery
day in the year. The first Sunday number was
] issued the 10Th. ss.as.@ 80 .4.-saA 5atA
BY-AmOng the deaths registered in Lon
donwas that of an infant from a splinter of
wood, swallowed accidentally in little sugar,
causing perforation Of the bowels.
DY There are in Leicester, Mass, thirty
three persons over eighty years of age. At the
last election one man ninety-four years of age
walked to the, polls and cast his vote for the
republican ticket; another eighty one years old
walked four miles and voted the same ticket.
DB- Oftentimes girl says ano" to an offer
when it as plain as the nose on her face that
she means Eyes" The best way to Judge
whether she is in earnest or not, is to look
straight into her eyes, and never mind her nose.
6B-It is sal that when the deaths by chol-
era in Paris were at a hundred day, the total
bill of mortality was not increased. The rea-
son for this was that people were frightened.
and took good care of their general health, SO
that ordinary maladies in the system were not
developed. ,.Hset.,,fg
va The rebel soldiers have all been inclu-
ded in the Presidents general amnesty rproola-
nation, whereupon the legislature of Missouri
has passed resolution for the appointment of
a committee to memorabilia President John
son to release all Union soldiers now in con-
finement for offenses committed during the re-
bellion, on the ground that the rebel soldiers,
whose crimes were infinitely greater, have been
pardoned. - "@1' tf'SY ~ s3""fA
BB-rThe Boston Transcript is asarkustic."
1t says "two reasons prevented General Nc
Clellan from returning in the Persia. He
couldn't get ready, and hadn't fully decided
which steamer to take"
GB- One of the best things of the season is
that of Bishop Simpson, who has declared in
favor Of paying the rebel war debt when it
becomes due, viz. !: .afterfls the independence of
the confederate States shall have been secured"
gB-The Tower of the Dearborn Observa-
tory, near Chicago has been finished, and is
now ready for the great telescope. Mr.. Tru-
man Henry Stafford, of Harvard University, is
spoken of as the Director.
EE- Hamburg, Bremen and Berlin are rails
ing fund for the support of freedmen in this
country, tst1 e.sz ttslh i.as