The Portland daily press., 1865-10-16
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.


BBIt appears that it was Mr.. McHenry
one of the party of English capitalists now on
a visit to America, who purchased for $685.
Bierstadt's "Rocky Mountains" Mr.. McHen-
rvs collection of paintings at home is valued
at 100000
"a VIM. Wallace Mayhem, lad of IA
years, hung himself in an outshed, in Man
chester, N. H.. a few days since. Only reason
assigned the fear he cherished that his father
would punish him for playing truant, and the
disgrace he felt at having been dishonored by
his teacher. He was bright, nervous boy,
who had suffered much from Ill health.
Humphreys, who has been elected Gov
ernor of Mississippi, was General in the rebel
army. His pardon warrant was signed by the
President on Thursday.
BThe shoemakers of New York city, en-
ployed on custom work, have struck for an adj
vance of twenty-five per cent. on their work
% The New York papers say the profits Of
the golfers, shippers and yard men amount, in
the aggregate lat present rates) from four to
five dollars per ton-more than the whole price
of coal eight or ten years ago, and more than
one third of its present retail price.
B8 The publisher of the Anglo-AJricasa Mr..
Robert Hamilton, an educated colored gentle
man, who recently visited our city to secure
aid towards purchasing the type and materials
for aprinting office, has so far succeeded as to
be able hereafter to print his paper with his
own types. Heretofore he has hired it printed.
The publication of the paper was necessarily
suspended for one week. We congratulate
Mr.. Hamilton on his success. He makes a
good paper and is engaged in a good work.
BB- On Friday the president issued four
hundred pardons for persons residing in the
States of Louisiana, South Carolina, Georgia
and Virginia. D9s4 Q48G
gin Vermont the following lines are in.
scribed on board near a watering place:
Temperance fountain good as can be; al !,
Better far than rum or brandy
If this truth excite your fury - .;
Let your horse be judge andj jury. sf,,
B8 Among the court files at Taunton is the
finding of coroner's jury, drawn up some
thirty years ago, by lawyer, which concludes
that "the said - came to his death by the
visitation of the aforesaid God"
E A Scottish paper states that during the
last two years the practice of snuff-taking has
been discontinued in Scotland to an almost
incredible extent, and continues rapidly, to di-
minish.
B8 The descent from Jerusalem to the
Dead Sea is half greater than from Jerusa-
lem to the Mediterranean In round numbers
it is twice 1900 feet from Jerusalem to the Med
iterranean, and three times 1900 from Jerusa-
lem to the surface of the Dead Sea, and four
times 1900 to the bottom Of the Dead Sea.
D- Over sixty nine millions of dollars were
raised in this country during the four years of
the great war, by voluntary contributions. for
benevolent purposes connected with it. It a
huge sum- and while the greater part of it was
given by men, the women of the country gath
cred the whole of it by their personal efforts.
their influence, their persistence and their pub
lie spirit.
Bg-The St. Johns IN. b. Globe, in an arti-
Gle discussing railway improvements and their
tendency to bring in an enterprising class of
people, says: Even with the disadvantages
under which we at present labor, most of our
mines, etc., are in the hands of enterprising
Americans. Capital is so easily moved that the
more the advantages which New Brunswick
offers in minerals and facilities for manufac-
lures are known, the more capital shall we have
invested among us in industrial pursuits. With
the vast amount of accrued profits which the
Americana--a migratory people-have, we may
expect them to avail themselves of any superb
GRITTY in location, raw material or mechanical
skill which this place may pos ess."' Why don't
the New Brunswick people snap up these
chances for themselves?s