The Portland daily press., 1865-11-22
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED

ORIGINAL AND SELECTED
The steamer Resaca was launched in
fine style at the Kittery Navy Yard on Satur-
day forenoon. The launch was witnessed by
large number of spectators, including great
many ladies. The Resaca was duly chris
tened by lady from Pittsburg, Penn, guest
of Admiral Bailey. After the launch the Ad-
miral entertained a large assemblage Of ladies
and gentlemen at his home in a most Hospital
BILE manner. The Resaca is to be towed to
Washington by the United States Steamer
Florida, to have her engines placed on board,
when she will again visit Portsmouth to be
fitted for sea, under command of Capt. Jos. M.
Bradford.
BY- Elk President Pierce's complaint, of
which he is lying dangerously ill at Concord,
N. H.. is chronic .diarrhga. His friends are
not without hope of his recovery rs 4ii- = III
In giving the substance of converse
ton between the rebel General Joseph E. John
ston and a citizen of New York, the Herald
says, speaking of the question of slavery Gen.
Johnston said very warmly: Butfor that in
stitution Virginia would have been richer
State than New York to-day" lgi1oE
EB- Among the important questions that
will demand the attention Of Congress-ques-
lions never before surpassed in importance,
will be the questions of Reconstruction" in
Guiding admission of Southern members, the
National debt, the status of the freedman, the
claims against England, and the French-Aus-
trian occupation of Mexico .t.l6ssa.l h
Ey~A dispatch from Washington says Mont
gomery Blair called upon the President Satur-
day, but got no comfort. 8biE GkL
5B- The Boston Traveller says that at 70
o'clock Saturday night, three men met Ed
ward Emmery, two miles from Grafton Cen.
tire, presented pistol, and told him to hand
out the money in his breast pocket. After get
ting it they took to the woods. The money
was four 800 bills on the Casco Banl, Portland,
one $50 and one $40 greenback.
j. r. Kelso, radical member of Congress
from the fourth district Mo-, recently passed
thro' St.Louis ON his way to Washington. While
serving as captain Of the militia, he made a
VOW that he would never cut his hair and beard
un il he had killed twenty-five bushwhackers
with his own hand. He is now closely cropped
and boasts he has fulfilled his vow by killing
that number. Ss%bJ ~ ssE& t4sSSBAG
BWe have often read pathetic speeches
of Indian warriors, but have seen nothing
more touching than the following by Ca
manche chief, at the recent council at Fort
Smith, addressed to Col. Sells: Brother, my
shirt, you see, is in rags. When return to my
tribe and say to them, I have been among
friends they will not believe me, if return in
this ragged shirt. My wife and daughter will
ask, where is the calico your friends gave
you p Brother, what shall I say about this
when return to my people 2" ,.-. .-.l
BH-A rich petroleum worker, gaunt as o
skeleton and ignorant as holman, went to an
artist to have his portrait taken. "Will you have
it taken in oil or water colors % inquired the
artist "Ile. of course" replied he. at comes
to me more natural; and besides, it makes me
look fatter." d. .ia s3 inli fat-laf 7
Our lady readers, who are about pur-
chasing their furs for the winter season, ought
to be informed that there is novelty in muffs
just now. tits in the shape of the morocco
bags, which ladies carry when they 90 out
shopping. A pocket for the purse and another
for the handkerchief are in the muff, and there
ore also cord and tassels to be put around the
neck ffrW&sN 'Fh
Vs. A writer in the Boston Transcript says
of Mrs. Elizabeth Murray, the accomplished
English artist, lately of this city (: "She is one
of the best painters in water-colors now living
and has national reputation in her own coun-
try. Her works are greatly sought after, and
for years have been among the greatest attrac-
lions OF those exhibitions of the Society of
Artists in Water Colors, which our country
men have so often attended in London. No ar
fist excels Mrs. Murray in devotion to her art,
or in that persevering industry which is so es-
sential to success. Her control of facial ex-
preston is complete, and the character shown
in her figures is wonderfully wrought out
We trust that Mrs. Murray will long remain
here, and are pleased to learn that she has al
ready received from the more cultivated of our
citizens that kindly hospitality and attention
which they know SO well how to bestow when
it is SO richly merited." r........3 .l
GY" The Nation, following in the path of The
Round Table, has opened its batteries on the
fashions of ladies' Dress Imam article on "Hair
and Hair-dressing," in the former paper, the
writer avows his conviction that if fashion
were to ordain that the sweetest and prettiest
headdress is an old shoe, every lady would soon
be walking about the world with her oldest
pair jauntily balanced upon her flowing
locks --
GS-The Scientific american mentions new
design for small coins, which consists in maxi
ing them in the form of the numerals of the
denomination they represent, as 1, 2, g. a, b.
By this device all confusion in the use of the
coins, even in the darkest night, will be avoid
ed; but it is a question whether they will not
soon punch holes in the pocket
E#A gentleman just from Appomattox
Court House states that "there is nothing left
of the apple tree under which General Lee
surrendered but hole in the ground, and it is
feared that unless the hole is fenced in that
also will be removed by curiosity seekers
Ey- George Stephenson, the last survivor
but two of Kane's Arctic expedition, was bur-
led at Brooklyn, N. Y, on Saturday.
pa New York despatch says on the 3Oth
inst, there will be a large sale of government
vessels at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.Tf frg al
Gy Rev. Mr.. Hill and other magistrates of
Stowmarket, Suffolk England, lately commit
ted awoman seventy years of age to prison for
fourteen days, with hard Labor for plucking
handful of corn of the value of two pence.
THE Garden of Acclimatization in Paris
has just received a hen ostrich, fifteen months
old, bred at Grenoble, and four chickens hatch
ed at Algiers. The ostriehes in domestic life
are quite farmyard birds; they lay, set and
bring up their young like ordinary fowls, =.