The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-09-06
ORIGINAL AND sELporrn !

uP ioA n0A anu reaiizeo $lo Ior der benefit She
at once repaired to dry goods store, where she
paid $l3 for a lace collar.
w In 1919, at a dinner to Mr.. Adams. at
Browns Hotel, Washington, Mr.. Calhoun prol
posed the following sentiment: Universal
| suffrage and universal education
The Concord Monstor understands tbs +
Or. Nat .Batcheldef,i of Epping, N. al. has
commenced suit against Ex-Gov. Berry ot
that state, for imprisoning him in Fort Consti-
tuition, laying damages at $4,000. N
BT- Commodore Long died on the ID inst.
| at North Conway. He was a native of Ports
mouth and resided at Exeter. He entered the
service in 1872, and was on the retired list
awaiting orders He was seventy years Of
age. ai ra altls eiib sfaaailf s- s.-.af
Mr.. Kennedy, late of the Census Blu
reau, has been rendered the Presidency Of the
United States Telegraph Company, at salary
of $1,000.
BB- Provisional Governor Parsons of Ala
bama has issued circular to the judges and
magistrates of the State, urging them to con-
form to the exigencies of the times and receive
negro testimony in their courts, as the less O.
two evils. The Governor reminds them tina,
it will be much better to have the laws admin
istered by the citizens of the State than by
strangers. ae1 AsAssnN .s9aisn5 5i8g.9aasas S :
Frederick w. Seward, Assistant Secre-
tary of State, has so far recovered his health
that he is able to attend to bust less of a prii.
vate character, and intends to resume the idu-
ties of his Office shortly. ~ s.i z
They have found a piece of petritied
wood full of nails in California, and the Colusa
Sun asks who drove those nails in that wood
The Indians who inhabit the country have
no idea of working in iron. An exchange
thinks it is piece of one of Solomon's ships
that he sent to the land of Ophir after gold {
8B- In the programme for his new Mormon
lecture, Artemus Ward says @After the frs
part, an intermissiou of five minutes viii occur
SO that the lecturer can go across the street tc
see man. The pianist, however, will practice
some new music" ASH ...sagr ..s.5....,..,.-
B The Hartford Evening Press, describing
beautiful triple circle Of prismatic colors
which recently appeared around the sun. Il
that vicinity, says Comparatively few people
witnessed the magnificent solar exhibition. but
if copper cent had been lying on the Sidewalk
they would have seen that. Merely shows
which way people look = Il
EY 1t is said that if for five years to come
the people of this country plant vineyards as
they have for five years past there, will be more
wine and grapes here than in the old coul,-
try. a as. '.os S.. 80 E. re-. sae aa..
aCarmorbus'ist the name given to the
disease which in New York has broken < OUT
among those who ride in the filthy and over
crowded horse-ca7s -
AgB President johnson, it is said, has sen
an invitation to John Bright to visit this coun-
try as the guest of the nation, and has sent one
Of our finest frigates, the Colorado, to England
to bring him to our shores. He ought to have
a rousing welcome.
The Richmond Times thinks that egrad-
ual emancipation" and thegasapprentice system"
are dangerous and pernicious quack medicines,
which, after doing much harm, will in no nway
better the present condition of affairs vir-
ginia has something better in store for her than
the occupation of wet-nurse for negro appren-
tees" for the next decade or so. sAit
EY Beilas' comet now approaching its per
ihelion, will soon be visible. 1t is now distant
about 100000 miles. On the first ofNoyem-
Der next it will be close to alpha Peaasi Markab.
one of the four bright stars forming the we'll
known square of Pegasus. 1t then pufsues
southerly course, crossing the celestial equator
about the middle of December 1t then crosses
its old path in 1916, pear where separated into
two comets. AT the end of February its dis
lance from the earth will be less than 1O,OO0CCC
of miles. This comets period is about six and
three-quarter years. RI.
E3f-A sensible Democrat writing to the
New York Leader on the tendency of his party
at the present time, says, that annen under the
heat of their aspirations do not reason much
and do not realize keenly the dangers that sur
round them" He flu. Their says, "You cannot
talk with your friends who are helbent-that is
not profanity, but political word with very
moral sense--without mourning p isonal ami
mostly, and doing no earthly good"
% The New York Sunday ARds, edited by
a Democratic ex-congressman, says: Every
few months the Daily Ne,os contains pompous
leader, signed by the proprietor and bristling
with capital Is, in which, after dilating upon
the condition of the country, it is solemnly an
nounced that the crisis is such as to make it in
cumbent upon Benjamin Wood to place h S
name as editor at the head of the paper or tai e
it down. This ridiculous farce has been per
formed several times without any perceptible
effect upon the country or any thing else except
the risible ia ultiesof those who read the Nears
Everybody knows that Ben Wood is incapable
of writing an editorial article, and it is cruel
for the ways who really do the work on his pa
per to take an unfair advantage Of his incrdi-
nate vanity VIII not some true friend tell
Ror xvha of ho re o
{ 20 The Boston Posts special dispatch says
the trial of JEFF. Davis is sure to come off in
October at Norfolk, before Chief Justice
Chase ii rs .a3aiJ won 3il3 ui ,l.sisl 10 it.io.I
The internal revenue receipts, for Sept.
4th reached four million dollars 4g-s
Vs. The win of the late Paul r. George of
New Hampshire, is to be contested on the
ground that it was executed on Sunday. = r. 2
| 1Gy Among the entries of fast horses at the
New England Fair at Concord, N. H. now n
poogress, are the 1Hconic" Of WateryiIle, and
the G. B, Mcclellan of Bangor 4,5i M s.ff
Vs. French Atlantic cable enterprise is
talked Of, to run down the African coast and
| ola Cape Verd Islands to Cape st. Rogue, on the
coast of Brazil, the longest submarine distance
being about half that from Ireland "a New.
iouiuianu' II IL e 4 81 Of4
B Speaker Colfax and his party were to
leave San Francisco for home, on Saturday
last.
B-"Is that ajafgonelle p asked gentle
man of streetdealer, as he pointed to a pear
No" replied the peddler, s'it'sten cents p
vs. Several indictments for treason have
been returned by Grand Jury in Baltimore.
SBThe Boston Adgertiser says the country
AZ very dry just now-and so are the news
papers. 'sNss1haAsA S4ssJ 81
va Byrne Mcdonald of Concord, Mass.
who is accused of having killed Michael Nc
Manus few days ago, is to be tried in the SUI
perior Court which viii be held in LowelI
commencing the first Monday in October. -
g Thirteen brothers and sisters-the oldest
not twenty years Of, age-now lie side by side in
a graveyard near Walkersvflle, Ma all ~