The Portland daily press., 1865-09-19
ORIGINAL AND snrncTnD.

- The Norfolk Post gives .sne ofIthg cam
didates of the Democratic CoiyentionI iii New
York this first rate notice: ssrke choice of Gen.
Patrick viii please THAT eehtlemen's many
friends in Richmond, who ADMIRE him for his
wantof patriotic VIRTUES, and for his great love
I Of the notorious Winder.s- - ESQ.,
~A French photographer has made ar
rangements for descending to the bed of the
ocean IN q submarine vessel, provided with the
electric hghtS and making submarine gphetpF
| graphs. ~ lAtet sEbKlFls8Nt4tA
u.s. A paragraph is going the rounds. credit.
ed to the Mobile AdUerttser Of Ane 18Th. that
meetingof nine hundred able bodie negroes
near that city, had resolved the experiment of
freedom a failure, the strangers from the
North their enemies, and that they would re-
turn 20 their masters. The other Mobile papers
aeny that any such meeting has been held, or
mat there has been any such number of colored
refugees congregated near the CITY.
meeting was held in Davenport. IoMa,
last week, and MEASURES adopted for procuring
a apeedy survey of the route for a canal from
the Mississippi River to Lake MICHIGAN, and
for canal around the upper rapids. s5 n M
~ " The Governor General of Canada has
issued a proclamation appointing the oath of
October next to be observed a dav Of thanks
giving for the bounteous harvest,
EB- Benjamin, the ex-rebel Secretary Of
State, Is said to be on his way to Aasttalia,
with view of practising there at the bar.
SIT is given out probably for the benefit
of nervous people that number of hotels and
boarding houses in W ashington have been re-
fitted throughout with bedding bought at re-
cent government hospital .sales.a 70 isa
EI-A New York merchant who lived un-
| happily with his high tempered wife, ghsying
returned from tour to Saratoga and Niagara
without hher, but with her, baggage, her friends
instituted an investigation, and ascertained
that the wife had been left atthe Ufca. Insane
Asylum. ~ VI
4, - The yearly income of Girard College is
about 100000, and there are now in the insti-
tuition 553 orphan boys, with 81 vacancies to
ELL. 4TIwI5 HxIalf1Fd go
B5F- The Toronto Globe reports Colorado"
Jewett as having lately said i'm that city that
there is no peace in the American Republic
yet, and that great patriotic party is requir
to compose the difficulties between North and
South. What sort of "Holy Alliance" does
Mr.. Jewett mean by "a great patriotic partysY
The union of Northern copperheads and South
ern ex-rebels? f II 100 ,eTs,j
% The Augusta tGa.) OAronicle and Sents-
'asl says, in regard to the amount Of cotton on
hand in the South at the close of the war; Z:
Gentlemen who have travelled throughout
the country are of the opinion that the number
of bales now in the country has been largely
overstated by those who estimated it at mil
lion and a half Men, who, from their position
and knowledge, should be good .iudges, bslievef
this to be 50, unless the quantity west Of the
Mississippi proves much greater than they have
reasonto suppose it is. 81 7i'dHd "a
p gB-The Newburyport Herald says eve re-
greet to announce that FaEher Hamin died from
the injury done to himself in his delirium, at
the hospital in New York, on Friday Ut "a a.
sad case, very affective to a large circle Of
friends, andswil carry the deepest grief to his
family in Ireland."a Ise7inaH al
% Lieut.. Gamble, Of the British shin Ur-,I
gent, in lettersto the Halifax cypress, says the
Urgent passed the locality where the cable
buogs are reported to have been placed, and
with the best lookonts, officers and lmein say,
rome of them. He concludes, if the Great
tsastern's reckonings were Gcorfect the Ibuoys
must have parted from the cable, and are drift
ing about the ocean SsSN ="
" Salhe, 'ssid fellow to girl who haaC
red hair,S keep away from me, you'll set me on
fire., No danger of that said SaIlie. .syou
ale too green to burn - = aaslo9 .si''
Il ~ rat the opera the other evening. one gem
tleman pointed out a dandifed looking indiyid-,
ualto friend as a sculptor. What said, his
friend such looking chap as that sculptor?
Surely, you must be mistaken" "He,mvy not
be the kind of one you mean,' said the in
forInant, ebut know he chiseIed tailor out,of
q suit of clothes last week"