The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-10-31
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

BaF- According to the proportion OF the
wealth to the national debt of the two coun-
tries, the debt of Canada is twenty five
per cent greater than that of the United
States
ErGen. Burnside, a Democrat at the be-
ginning of the war, at a Manufacturers Con-
vention in Philadelphia ON the 9th of October,
said !: II think the only thing to do now is to
try to make our neighbors OF the South, and
| every one else feel that we ought to grant to
every freedman ON this continent the right to
help rule the land. And, while we grant this,
let us ask Almighty God, who has assisted
US 50 long, to influence all those who may
have the right to vote, to vote on the right
side" qr
Ez-Mrs. Paul Akers (Florence Percy, for
merly Of this city, was recently married in
Washington.
E-aSojourner Truth" that remarkable old
negress, now eighty years of age, who has been
and now is employed in the Freedmen's Hospi-
tai at Washington, wasrudely assaulted by the
Conductor of street car in that city, who at
tempted to eject her from her seat The case
was brought before the Grand Jury, and the
offending Conductor put under bonds for his
rage. ef eHrfa Wtss4A
| E8f-A Texas paper says that more than nail
the spelling-books now sold in Houston 60 into
the hands of the negroes. Several schools for
calored persons are now in operation in Hous-
ton and in Galveston. Many planters buy
stock of schoobooks for the schools already
not unfrequent upon the plantations
| EB-A letter from Texas says that the State
is fast attaining its former prosperity civil au-
thority resumes its sway; post-offiees are being
| opened, and stages begin their old routes.
Governor Hamilton's administration is uni
versally approved.
| EY- A railroad company in Michigan has
lately made application to the Freedmen's Bu-
reau for four hundred negro laborers, to be en-
ployed in the construction of new line of road
in that State. They offer to pay such laborers
| eighty-seven and half cents per day and
board them.
| gH@We have noticed the highest wages ever
paid to female operative in one of our cotton
mills-$55 in five weeks and the highest wages
! ever paid female operative in one OF our hat
| factories in five weeks. But we are beat
| out and out by the Salisbury Mills A female
lucrative there has earned over $3.50 inthe past
! four months, averaging over $62 per month, or
| $3.50 per year; and last month she earned over
| $64. Quite number on the same corporation
have earned from fifty to sixty dollars per
month; and on the first of November wages
| are to be advanced 10 per cent We don't be-
leve these persons confine their labors to eight
hours day, or are in favor of the eight hour
system. Newburyport Herald
l,<o;1a ~
down on the present system of boiler inspec-
ton. They truly say that only practical
boiler makers are competent to make the in
| spections and that the occur renee of accidents
from dereliction of duty on the part of the ex-
aminers should be punishable as felony.
"A meeting to denounce Sunday trains
was lately held in Edinburgh, presided over by
baronet who regularly ever Sunday drives
into town from his seat, some five CT six miles
of, in carriage and pair, with coachman and
footman, to attend church.
EB-The Richmond papers of Tuesday state
that the ring which was stolen fronnthe body of
Colonel Dahlgren by cutting off the finger, has
been recovered. 1t was .ound in the possession
of DR.. Saunders, at Loretto, Essex county,
| Virginia.
E5Y- Within two or three weeks over four
thousand barrels of apples have been shipped
from Lake county, ILL.,, also over thousand
barrels have been sent from Fort Wayne, Ind,
to New York. They can be put up there at
two dollars per barrel, and as they bring eight
dollars in New York very handsome profit is
made
GR- An exchange says that waterfalls" are
prohibited by the English game laws. The
clause, which applies to them, runs as follows :
Netting the hare shall be punished by fine
and imprisonment" etc.
Vs. Mrs. Thomas Starr King and her two
children returned from California last week.
BB- Rev. E. e. Hale, in the columns of the
Christian Register for the past week, gives
the result of the efforts to raise 100000 for
Antioch College. 1t appears that on the 23d of
this month, the subscription had amounted to
$1OS,794, with more expected. From California
the sum of $4,000 Was given for the "Starr
King Professorship."
B- The New York World persists in count
| ing its chickens before they are Matched. 1t
counts Gen. John Coehrane among the brood
of supporters of the democratic ticket; but I'M
fortunately that gentleman in q card to the
| Tribune, says he is for the Union cause and inn
partial suffrage, which settles his status.
THE Rev. DR.. Jones of New York, a min
lister in the Episcopal Church. recently de-
ceased, was bornin Brunswick in this State
and graduated at Bowdoin College.
EY An English commercial traveller, named
Alexander Macintosh, who had probably be-
come demoralized by reading Charles Reade's
Cox Tunnel" was recently fined e5 and costs
Dy the Croydon magistrates for attempting to
KISS a young lady named Sutton while travel
ing in railway train through tunnel.
GB-The Richmond City Council have passed
an ordinance repeating all ordinances or parts
of ordinances relating to negroes or negro
slavery.
D8- James 7. Gerard was one of the speak
ers at democratic meeting in Brooklyn, N
Y, on Friday night, and bitterly bewailed the
freeing of the negroes.
BB-It is said that Rev. II. w. Beecher will
preach the funeral sermon over the remains of
Col. Dahlgren.
B3 Mr.. B. johnson Barbour, Congressman
elect from Richmond, is to take the stump in
New Jersey. for the republican candidates.
Vs. Gen. Bragg is about to start cotton
plantation in Alabama with free negro labor.
BB- The ex-rebel General Hood is said to be
in destitute condition. The citizens of San
Antonio, Texas, are taking up subscriptions to
purchase home for him in that State
EB-The New York Herald having coniec-
tured that the counsel in the trial of Jefferson
Davis will be for the prosecution Attorney
General Speed, Hon. j. 81. Clifford, Hon.,W VIM.
M. Evarts and Major General Rousseau, and
| for the defence Charles O'Copor and Ransom
Fl. Gillett, gives elaborate biographies Of each
of the gentlemen.
Gen. I. Glover has been fined $500 for
praeticing lawi in st. Louis without taking the
oath required by the new constitution.
BS 1.-THE Internal Revenue receipts for the
| week ending SATURDAY. averaged ovor o,,a mil.