The Portland daily press., 1865-12-19
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED

BB Resolutions introduced in the Virginia
legislature, style Ben Butler "the celebrated
Hudibrastic general
va The Grand Lodge of Free Masons in
North Carolina are much troubled at the estab-
.ishment of lodge of the colored Free Masons
1T Newbern, under dispensation from Massa-
,husetts. . D..
Ey- Somebody speaks of Washington as a
watering place." whereupon an exchange
wants to know if the whiskey is all gone there.
EB- The Newburyport Herald, now thirty
years old, is to be enlarged ON the LIST prox.
gB- Referring to the verdict of $4,000
awarded in the case of Sturtevant Us. Allen,
set aside by Judge Bigelow in Boston, the cor
respondent of the Springfield Republican, writ
ing from that city, says:-"If the trial by jury
were not entrenched in our constitutions it
would give way, for tradition and custom could
not save it," ..-s
gB- st. Paul, with $4,000 inhabitants is to
build next season an opera house of ample d.
mansions, with stage capable of accommo-
dating between two and three hundred per-
formers, Portland, with a population of 3d.
900, is limited to the narrow, il-ventiated, ILL
lighted and utterly shabby accommodations
afforded by Deering Hall |
EB- A lady by the name of bennett, resid-
ing in Pittsfeld, Mass, is the youngest of TWEEN
ty-eight children, and is herself the mother of
fourteen.
gR- Lucy Stone says 1.-THE cradle is wo-
mans ballot box" How about the legality of
double voting-voting early and voting often
90 Hon. Arson Burlingame will return to
his post at an early day, with especial instruc-
tons to encourage commercial relations be-
tween China and the Pacific States.
EB- The Legislature of Virginia will elect
State officers on the 21st. 1t is suggested that
the old officers who held place in the rebel
State Government, under "Extra-Billy" Smith,
will be reinstated. If so, Gov. Pierpont will
regard it as a personal indIgnity and resign,
which will make provisional governor neces-
sary Pierpont has no right to complain Of
such an act, for he favored the change in the
Constitution which renders those ex-rebels ell
igible.
gBIt is said that Gen. Slocum, since his
oeieat In the New York State election, admits
that ne made a mistake in allowing himself to
be drawn into politics by the Democrats. A
Democratic paper hits him back by saving the
Democrats made mistake in drawing him in.
EY- The constitutionality of the official test
oath was argued before the Supreme Court at
Washington, the latter part of last week,
w- A Washington dispatch says the direct
or of the mint at Philadelphia has made for the
Secretary of the Treasury specimens of eagles,
half eagles, dollars, half dollars and quarter
dollars, bearing the motto In God we trust"
There is no addition to the other legends and
devices upon the coins. Secretary McCulloch
has approved the designs, and the coin hereaf-
ter made will bear the motto. The smaller
coins do not afford room for the words.
e~ A ex-Empress of Mexivo, Madame
Huate de Iturbide, widow of the great Next
can iberator, died in Philadelphia few days
ago. She was an American by birth, and
woman of great force of character.
GB- The Lincoln Monument Association
nave purchased six acres of land at SPRING
neid' Ill, and completed vault upon it for the
late PRESIDENTS remains. The design for the
monument will be fixed upon by committee
Of one from each Of the States.