The Portland daily press., 1865-10-19
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

the hammer.
g4-The oil region is getting to be dan
gerous place to livein. The sooner you strike
ileD the sooner a lood-thirsty robber strikes
you.-[Monitor.
BB- On the 14th of April Orsini, Charlotte
Corday, Ravaillac, and Booth committed their
crimes, and William H., Anne, George l,
George H. George Ill, George ~, William
~, Washington and Lincoln, all died on a.
Saturday. These are strange circumstancesin
history. q 8A
B "A boy in Boston fell from a fence few
days since, and broke his neck -r
BB- Alex. H. Stephens, after being released
from Fort Warren, was entertained by apriyate
dinner at the Revere House, by Geo. A Fair
field of Chelsea. Flunkeyism
"a An exchange aptly compares the ex-
treme anxiety of the Copperheads to the mis-
chievous remark of the great Sheridan. "What
isyour name, said policeman, taking him up
from the pavement in condition of drunk
enness. William Wilberforce, I" was the
reply.
% Henry Ward Beecher condensed volumes
into few lines when he recently said in Phila-
delphia ''There must not be one court for
white men and another court for black men,
If you are to classify, it cannot stop here Nop
1t is color, bast6y andy there ,oi16e classfca-
ton on account of condition, and there viii 70
laws for the rich man and laws for the poor
man. appeal to every man if he can dodge
this principle, or get rid of it."
5 a. We hear with great pleasure that Lieut.
III. F. Maury, whilom of the National Observa-
tory at Washington, has become a citizen of
Mexico We hope he may find his new coun-
try so agreeable that he will never more leave
it, but send for his relatives to join him there
: Tribune. Il IS q - WI e.i
BB The New York World is rejoicing over
/ the disintegration Of the republican party
Does it discover signs of it in the recent cleo
tons We commend to Mr. Marble two ex-
cellent old saws Don't halloo till you are out
Of the woods" Never count your chickens till
they are hatched."4[N. B. Mercury a Is
BB- Connecticut, since her vote upon the
suffrage question, has been punished = not
above her deserts-by the compliments Of cop
perheads and traitors the country over. One of
the choicest is from that notorious rebel sheet.
the Mobile Tribune, which says, "Connecticut,
it seems to us, is the wisest of all the New Eng
land States-has less of the fanaticism which
has made them so pernicious to the peace of
the country. We shall pray that the souls Of
her people may not come under the eeclesias-
tical ministrations of any of the Beecher
family" se.-A n 2.sA
r 60 In one of the articles of the Press yes
terday, Judge Sharkey of Mississippi, was
spoken Of as author of several standard legal
works. This was a mistake. Judge Sharkey
has been, as there stated an eminent jurist in
his state, but the legal writer referred to was
Starkey, an English writer on jurisprudence,
and not the Provisional Governor of Miissis-
sippi. oAJ5lAElI5 q oN.>tA
W One of the richest practical jokes of the
season is in John Van Buren, denouncing Gen.
Dix as renegade Democrat. John has for
gotten As when his .tdads was under the hay
stack, and when he bolted the Democratic
nomination to crafty personal spite. "sh ~
EThe Philadelphia correspondent of the
Evening Post writing oftheA Episcopal Com
vention, says, "the feeling of disgust and dis
appointment with which the loyal portion of
the Convention received the strange omission
of any mention Of the re-establishment of ma
tional authority over the whole country, in the
1utSSdRt SGIlb uOWA ny Vic 4AOuoO VI OAsuOpst
grows stronger. At the beginning of the morn
ing's session several deputies rose, and begged
to explain that they had voted against laying
Horace Binneys loyal resolution on the table,
and desired that the local press, which, owing
to the confusion amid which the vote was
taken, had placed their names on the wrong
side, might correct the error. Among the gent
lemeu who desired to stand right before the
world are the Rev. Mr.. Burgess of Maine,
and Rev. Mr.. William H. Boardman of Con-
necticut."
Pope Plus TX is the youngest of three
living brothers. 4 His Oldest brother, Count
Gabriel, is eighty-four years of age; and the
next, Count Gaetan, eighty; he has one sister,
the Countess Benigni, vigorous old lady,
seventy-seven years of age. Count jerome,
his father, died at eighty-four years; and the
Countess Catherine, his mother, at eighty-two.
Finally Count Hercules, his grandfather, lived
to the patriarchal age of ninety-six.
g-"Massa c., do you know Lawyer =, in
de same building whar your Office is % "Oh,
yes" replied, avery WELL" "Gosh, said Bill,
''he's got de ittlest head of any man, I ever
seed" At this remark, a big, fat cuffy negro,
lounging on settee, spoke up ;l"What use a
man got wild big trunk whenhe amt got no
clothes ?''
E Macmillan has recently appointed sew
eral of our rebels colonization agents for his
empire. 1t would be good thing for this
country if he would colonize them ALL
BB-Grn. Fitzpatrick says that the Copper
head party of New jersey should be buried
nine feet under ground, face downward.
"a Glass manufacturing at Pittsburg. Pa,
has increased fully 20 per cent during the four
years of the war s,
BB-An army surgeon named Williams en-
tered a New York bar-room, put 30 grains OF
morphine in mixture, drank it, bid the bar
keeper goodbye, and in less than half an hour
| died. 4 rs 1884 A-.tl ~ NJ
E- A friend has handed us a California
paper containing an unfavorable notice of this
city and its institutions, in a communication
from correspondent. 1t would be waste of
words to notice it. "
The story that thumb-screws were app
piled to Dr. Mudd at the Dry Tortugas to ex-
tort confession of his aceompliees in his at
tempt to escape, is fully eontradicted. Sodown
goes another copperhead falsehooda -''1s
b8O On Tuesday the President received a
petition, signed by FIVE thousand women Of
Georgia, praying for the pardon of JEFF. Davis.
Similar memorials, but not SO numerously
signed, are received almost daily
Ia Among the rebels to whom confscated
property has been restored is one Lieut.. White,
of Fairfax tounty, Va, at one time command
ing Whites guerrillas, but latterly belonging
to Mosby's gang. -@'fii 4 22@
| 81 The New York World complains bitterly
of the "absurd tyranny" of the new State law
which requires the voters to be registered, and
is designed TO stop thewholesale voting of aliens
and non-residents. The law is similar to that
Of this State, and is eminently justand proper
8-Gen, Alfred Terry, commanding Depart
ment of Virginia, and Major General Hooker