The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-12-01

B8 The receipts from internal revenue on
Saturday amounted to nine hundred and fifty
thousand dollars.
EB-ssI gave the fellow a shilling" said Sir
Walter Scott ON some occasion when sixpence
was the fee, and added, remember you owe
me sixpence, Pat" "May your honor live till
pay you," was the neat reply.
EB-Ata Sabbath school meeting in New
Hampshire the history of Samson was the SUBJ
ject of examination. what foolish thing did
Samson do ?" was one of the questions put. A
little one replied "He went down among the
Phillistines and got wife,"
BYA traveller stopping at western hotel
exclaimed in the morning to the waiter "What
are you about, you black rascal ? You have
reused me twice from my sleep by telling me
breakfast is ready, and now you are attempting
to strip off the bed clothes" "Why," replied
Pompey, "if you isn't gwine to git up, must
have de sheet, anyhow, cause dy's waitin' for
de table cloff." 't2 .aF
ER-The Governor of Oregon has called
special session of the legislature to ratify the
constitutional amendment.
1 "A report filed in the Freedmen's Bu-
reau by General Fullerton, who has Just re-
turned from Louisiana, whittier he went on
official business, shows that the planters in the
State named are unable to obtain sufficient
number of laborers to perform the work imper-
atively demanded. The planters of Louisiana
would employ several thousand more freedmen
than are now in the State if they could be pro-
cured. .-.
BA dispatch to the Boston Herald saws
the clerk of the House has put the names of
the Tennessee members on the roll of the
House. Why the case of Tennessee differs
from those of Louisiana and Arkansas, it is
difficult to see. --.s.5
Richmond correspondence of the 18th,
says General Grant was heartily welcomed to
that city by the military authorities. He free.
ly expressed his opinion while there regarding
Mexican affairs. He said emphatically that the
advent of Macmillan to the pretended throne
of Mexico was part Of the rebellion, and his
immediate expulsion should be a part of its
history. E1rss AE
| EB- Pierre Soule has resumed the practice
| of law in New Orleans So
| #gY The Mississippi legislature proposes to
let negroes testify in all cases where white men
are not involved. If an honest negro sees his
white friend assassinated by white bully, the
law will not let him say so. Beautiful, isn't
| it?
| EThe London Ne,os is indignant with the
tone of the military dispatches and newspaper
correspondence from Jamaica, which it thinks,
"proves that the ferocity we denounce in sava-
ges can take possession of English hearts, and
mercy and justice can be forgotten by English
officers as thoroughly as by indians or Cos
! sacks"
EY-There is man in one of our suburban
towns whose nose is so big that when he has a
cold he is obliged to blow it with gunpowder.
In the farming season he uses it instead of a
| fish-horn, to call the workmen to dinner.
| GY- Pu,ach's question for these dear times
When shall we three meat again ro1.
B%-Gen. Joseph Warren, of Bunker Hill
memory, lived in Hanover street, Boston, on
the site of the present American House.
EY-Franklin was born in Boston in 1905;
the precise spot not definitely determined. Two
OF three places are claimed as the spot, one Of
them on Milk near Washington street. His
parents were buried in the yard adjoining Park
Street church, and over their remains is mon
ument erected by "their son Benjamin.
RThe smoking cars on the New York
street railways are crowded with ladies who
endure the tobacco fumes rather than wait fol
the next car. c.so