The Portland daily press., 1865-09-04
ORIGINAL AND sEnHcrEp.

gHGen. Grant will not return to Washing
ton until the first of October.
The receipts from the internal revenue
on Wednesday last, were over two million four
hundred thousand dollars; the largest amount
received in any one day since the bureau went
into operation. The total receipts for the
| month just ended are $34, 089,589. g Il
! gBThe drought in New Hampshire has al
most destroyed the feed in many pastures.
Fires in the woods have done mischief in seve-
al places. aefsrl3e 2lh.sw aeOMF r. Y1s
Gen. Schenck, in recent speech In
Ohio, said, "a rebel is courageous copper
head, and a copperhead is cowardly rebel
B-In answer to the objection to negro suf-
f'age that the negroes are ignorant, Ward
Beecher says they knew enough to hold fast to
the Government in all the trials of four years,
and asks if it is not better to trust the ignorance
of patriotism than the intelligence of treason.
g- President johnson is said to have intro
duced into the White House the largest family
circle that ever occupied that establishment;
consisting of his wife, son, son-in-law, two
daughters, and number of grandchildren
eB-An old pork packer in st. Louis returned
an income of ss450OO0 for the year 1864. All
the result of striking (lard) ile."6 l4Res 4
EB- Gov. Henry of Washington Territory,
who was lost on board the Brother Jonathan,
was an intimate friend of Mr. and Mrs. Lin
| coin Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln were married at
| his house p
GB-The ex-rebel Gen. Lowell it is said has
become the working editor of the New York
Daily NeDs. i9 5eie atli59 yn A3fa iA1-.s "a Ell
A DiIra fba AL g,
ing thesecond time for pardon Pike is ma
native of Massachusetts, was educated in her
free schools, and then went South, Joined in
the rebellion, and organized band of Indian
savages to tomahawk and scalp the Yankees !
This was all. Why shouldn't he be pardoned,
aud allowed all the privileges of a brother
mistaken Southern brother"l saoea1
gB-It is said that one of the recent fearful
Iailroad collisions was caused by train being
| on time T74 -4a3
BB Brig. Gen. Mason, Post Commandant,
has issued a general order prohibiting the car
rying of concealed weapons in the streets of
Nashville. Such weapons are to be confis-
Gated, @
B-The State election in Vermont takes
place tomorrow. esE;fi 3llFfF5
-DeBow, the Southern statistician, who
did his best to cipher the South into rebellion,
is in Washington. He must cut poor figure
! now. The Boston Transcript thinks that the
negroes, whose rights he has always assailed,
are very forgiving if they do not feel dis
posed to give literal meaning to the melody of
Hang up de fiddle and De Bow"
The Concord Monitor is informed that
b. Barnes, Jr., is about purchasing the Dover
Gazette establishment in Dover, with the inten-
ton of converting that paper into live repub-
ican weekly. .5fs
DB A Boston reporter was publicly cow
hided by an indignant female on Thursday, who,
having been abandoned by her faithless hus-
band, was referred to by the knight of the quill
as "poor abandoned creature p
SB-One thousand shares Of a petroleum
company were sold in New York last week, for
five dollars and fifty cents-about half cent a
share.
UB Mr.. Chauncey Burr, while attending the
Democratic convention at Trenton, had his
pocket picked Of $500. It was probably either
borrowed or counterfeit
EH-A serious fire occurred in Boston on Fri
day evening, over the passenger depot of the
Boston & Worcester Railroad. Messrs. Buck
ley & Bancroft, furniture dealers, lost $4,000
Insurance $4,000.
90 Mr.. 3. Joy Morris, our Minister to Con-
stanunople, in a dispatch to the State Depart
ment' says; Had the proper quarantine mea-
sures been taken at first, the introduction of
tne cnolera from Egypt might have been pre-
vented. IL seems to me, from our experience
here, that it will be advisable in the United
States TO guard against it by the most rigid
quarantine regulations. Otherwise. if it once
enters the country it win be very fatal. in con-
sequence of the great destitution prevailing in
Virginia and other Of the Southern States and
of the diseases which always follow in the train
of war"