The Portland daily press., 1865-08-12
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.

ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.
B9~ "A Greek maid being asked what fortune
she would bring her husband, replied II will
bring him what gold cannot purchase; heart
unspotted, a virtue without stain. which is all
that descended to me from my parents
W Stewart the merchant prince" of New
York, is erecting palatial residence on the
corner of Fifth Avenue and 34th street, four
stories high, with front on the former of so
feet, and on the latter of 145 feet. The main
entrance will be 15 feet wide. The cost viii, he
not less than 81 100000. The man who has to
furnish, occupy and keep in order such an es-
Enlistment, is to be pitied.
EB-A person who has made the comnlete
tour of the watering places and summer resorts
informs the stay-at-home public that there is no
danger Of having the govt from high living. at
any of them.
"a M. de Haurowitz, Privy Councillor to
the Emperor of Russia and Inspector General
of the sanitary condition of the Immortal Ma
rine, is in New York. He is CHARGED with a
special mission to study our sanitary system as
applied to the army and navy, and has spent
two months in the camps and stations in and
near the army and in the hospitals at WASHING
ton. He has been received with the HIGHEST
distinction by the President and the public au-
thorities, and every facility has been afforded to
him to accomplish the objects of his mission.
va A Dubuque paper says that Chicago is
the most excitable market in the world. A
thunder shower sets them all crazy. and clear
day all bankrupt"
BB-The British consul at Abyssiuia was at
last accounts led like wild beast with an iron
collar around his neck, and good prospect of
having his head cut off. The Emperor tells
England to come and take him if she wants
| him. M ft
There were many applications from per-
sons who wished to fill the office of executioner
at the hanging of DR.. Pritohard at Glasgow,
some volunteering to pay all their own expen-
| ses.
! Married-In Williamstown, Mass Mr.
| William Williams and Miss Betsey Williams:
for particulars see small Bills.
BB- Comparatively speaking a clergyman
when dead is past, but his successor is pastor.
E3 A Virginia paper says able-bodied CON
trabands are selling in Texas at about twelve
cents dozen.
EB 1.-The whole number of persons made free
in Kentucky through the instrumentality of
the army, is 10O,S64. .oe8 a
va Cabalistic characters-those that will be
used in recording messages by the cable.
SY Spectators and the interests of COM
merce may suffer by the failure of the Atlantic
Cable, butnewspaper publishers can't afford to
shed tears of sympathy for their misfortune
/ NsAszH Tho Tex,a,,;no, Deaf
clans at yalentia Bay and on board the Great
Eastern, watching the vital spark at either end
of the cable, must have been reminded at times
of Hoods lines HC
"Our very hopes belied our fears,
Our fears our hopes beIied-
We thought her dying when she slept
And sleeping when she died"
B-The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Inquirer says it has been decided
to change the Grand Council with the Indians
from Fort Gibson to Fort Smith, on the western
border Of Arkansas, ON account of the accom-
mOdations and subsistence being more album
dant at the latter place.
B- Reports from Alabama state that the
! corn crop in that state will be immense. Bust
ness is reviving. The colored people are depor-
ting themselves well in most parts of the State.
The Federal officials have given perfect salts
faction to the people by their course. Both
whites and negroes who commit outrages are
promptly arrested and punished.
i BR- Betsey Wilder, colored woman, who
was present at Yorktown when CORVALLIS sur
rendered, recently died at Richmond, Va lat the
age of 1OS years.
"Sam,are you one of the Southern chiv-
airy ?" "No, massa; Use one OBJ de Southern
shovelry; shoveled dirt at the Dutch Gap
Canal
BY~ Lord Palmerston intends to hold on at
least a few years longer, for he has entered a
horse for the Derby of 1857.
Returns received from Oregon show
great activity in the sale of public lands for
settlement on that part of the Pacific coast.
BB~The Hartford Times is barking at Gen.
Grant. 1t says that he has only an ordinary
mind, and accuses him of making ian election
eering tour" Poor Grant
EB-A young soldier in New York offered a
$40 BILL which was refused by a trader as bad.
He offered it again, was arrested and both shop
keepers appearing to testify against him, he
pleaded guilty. When about to be called up
for sentence, broker was sent for, and the bill
was found to be genuine.
"a There are one thousand laborers en-
ployed on the Spanish frontier in cutting the
tunnel for the railway through the Pyrennees
4 va Heller begins season in Washington
next week, at Growers Theatre. uEog
All that Unnecessary for the enjoyment
of sausages at breakfast is Confidence
-The Nashville Times and Press proposes
to hang, burn or fry to death in petroleum the
horrid monster Champ Ferguson, and take the
remainder of the evidence in regard to his
guerrilla cruelties afterward sr d
BY@A An irreverent correspondent describes
the Emir Abd-el-lzader as Jolly, round-faced
Algerian, who might be replaced to-day by any
Kentucky negro in the same costume without
the fraud being detected. He goes into the
highest Partisan society with his two beautiful
wives, for whom he paid Ss8O0O
BlB- Hiram Merrill young man of Barn.
stead, Conn.,, cut his throat last week, on the
day before the one fixed for his wedding. ~
BY Rev. Eli Ballou and lady, of Montpelier,
vt, were thrown from carriage recently,
while ona visit to some relatives in Northern
New York, and Mrs. Ballou was considerably
injured, though at last advices she was doing
we'll Her sisters husband, with whom they
were riding, was killed, and her sister so badly
stunned and bruised that it was thought she
could not survive"
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.